Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Mental prayer is nothing else but being on terms of friendship with God, frequently conversing in secret with Him.
Teresa of Avila
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Teresa of Avila
Prayer
Secret
Term
Conversing
Else
Frequently
Nothing
Saint
Mental
Friendship
Terms
More quotes by Teresa of Avila
For, as I said a little way back, perfect souls are in no way repelled by trials, but rather desire them and pray for them and love them. They are like soldiers: the more wars there are, the better they are pleased, because they hope to emerge from them with the greater riches.
Teresa of Avila
Out of suffering comes the serious mind out of salvation, the grateful heart out of endurance, fortitude out of deliverance faith. Patient endurance attends to all things.
Teresa of Avila
Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
Teresa of Avila
What value is there in faith without works? And what are they worth if they are not united to the merits of Jesus Christ, our only good?
Teresa of Avila
All blessings come to us through our Lord. He will teach us, for in beholding His life we find that He is the best example.
Teresa of Avila
If you seek to carry no other crosses but those whose reason you understand, perfection is not for you.
Teresa of Avila
To converse with You, O King of glory, no third person is needed, You are always ready in the Sacrament of the Altar to give audience to all. All who desire You always find You there, and converse with You face to face
Teresa of Avila
No one should think or say anything of another which he would not wish thought or said of himself.
Teresa of Avila
I have often thought with wonder of the great goodness of God and my soul has rejoiced in the contemplation of His great magnificence and mercy. May He be blessed for ever! For I see clearly that He has not omitted to reward me, even in this life, for every one of my good desires.
Teresa of Avila
Contemplative prayer [oraciĆ³n mental] in my opinion is nothing else than a close sharing between friends it means taking time frequently to be alone with him who we know loves us.
Teresa of Avila
God has no hands or feet or voice except ours and through these He works.
Teresa of Avila
Discontent with this world gives such a painful longing to quit it that, if the heart finds comfort, it is solely from the thought that God wishes it to remain here in banishment.
Teresa of Avila
We shall never learn to know ourselves except by endeavoring to know God for, beholding His greatness we realize our own littleness His purity shows us our foulness and by meditating upon His humility we find how very far we are from being humble.
Teresa of Avila
It constantly happens that the Lord permits a soul to fall so that it may grow humbler.
Teresa of Avila
God never changes Patient endurance Attains to all things Who God possesses In nothing is wanting Alone God suffices.
Teresa of Avila
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
Teresa of Avila
Life is a night spent in an uncomfortable inn.
Teresa of Avila
Whenever we think of Christ, we should recall the love that led Him to bestow on us so many graces and favors, and also the great love God showed in giving us in Christ a pledge of His love for love calls for love in return. Let us strive to keep this always before our eyes and to rouse ourselves to love Him.
Teresa of Avila
Praised be the Lord, who has redeemed me from myself.
Teresa of Avila
Anyone who has the habit of speaking before God's majesty as if he were speaking to a slave, careless about how he is speaking, and saying whatever comes into his head and whatever he's learned from saying prayers at other times, in my opinion is not praying. Please, God, may no Christian pray in this way.
Teresa of Avila