Quote

If you fall sometimes, you must not be discouraged.

Teresa of Avila

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Teresa of Avila
Discouraged
Fall
Sometimes
Must

More quotes by Teresa of Avila

Image
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
Teresa of Avila
Image
Holy church-that mother who is also a queen because she is a king's bride.
Teresa of Avila
Image
It is love alone that gives worth to all things.
Teresa of Avila
Image
How friendly all men would be one with another, if no regard were paid to honour and money! I believe it would be a remedy for everything.
Teresa of Avila
Image
If we do not use great care to mortify our will, there are many things which can deprives us of the holy freedom of spirit that we are seeking in order to fly more freely to our Creator, without always being bogged down with the clay of this earth. Moreover, there can never be solid virtue in a soul that is attached to its own will.
Teresa of Avila
Image
It is a dangerous thing to be satisfied with ourselves.
Teresa of Avila
Image
I had a father and mother, who were devout and feared God. Our Lord also helped me with His grace. All this would have been enough to make me good, if I had not been so wicked.
Teresa of Avila
Image
Christ moves along the pots and pans.
Teresa of Avila
Image
Life is a night spent in an uncomfortable inn.
Teresa of Avila
Image
Much more is accomplished by a single word of the Our Father said, now and then, from our heart, than by the whole prayer repeated many times in haste and without attention.
Teresa of Avila
Image
I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.
Teresa of Avila
Image
The words are very distinctly formed but by the bodily ear they are not heard. They are, however, much more clearly understood than they would be if they were heard by the ear. It is impossible not to understand them, whatever resistance we may offer... There is no escape, for in spite of ourselves we must listen...
Teresa of Avila
Image
I would never want any prayer that would not make the virtues grow within me.
Teresa of Avila
Image
Mental prayer is nothing else but being on terms of friendship with God, frequently conversing in secret with Him.
Teresa of Avila
Image
Let us remember that within us there is a palace of immense magnificence.
Teresa of Avila
Image
To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
Teresa of Avila
Image
We are always in the presence of God, yet it seems to me that those who pray are in His presence in a very different sense.
Teresa of Avila
Image
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
Image
The true penance comes when God takes away the soul's health and strength for doing penance. Even though I have mentioned elsewhere the great pain this lack causes, the pain is much more intense here. All these things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted.
Teresa of Avila
Image
To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.
Teresa of Avila