Top 15 Teresa of Ávila Quotes

Let nothing perturb you, nothing frighten you. All things pass. God does not change. Patience achieves everything.

Let nothing disturb you,
Let nothing frighten you,
All things are passing away:
God never changes.
Patience obtains all things.
Whoever has God lacks nothing;
God alone suffices.

It is love alone that gives worth to all things.

Christ has no body now on earth but yours,
no hands but yours,
no feet but yours,
Yours are the eyes through which to look out
Christ's compassion to the world
Yours are the feet with which he is to go about
doing good;
Yours are the hands with which he is to bless men now.

It is foolish to think that we will enter heaven without entering into ourselves.

Love turns work into rest.

The closer one approaches to God, the simpler one becomes.

Thank God for the things that I do not own.

You pay God a compliment by asking great things of Him.

The important thing is not to think much but to love much; and so do that which best stirs you to love.

If this is how you treat your friends, no wonder you have so many enemies.

Trust God that you are exactly where you are meant to be.

For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.

God save us from gloomy saints!

The devil frequently fills our thoughts with great schemes, so that instead of putting our hands to what work we can do to serve our Lord, we may rest satisfied with wishing to perform impossibilities.