Quote #22
The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.
More from Teresa of Avila (Teresa de Jesus)
- Prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.
- There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
- Pain is never permanent.
- To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.
- Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds.
- To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
- O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with which to praise the Lord. It utters a thous…
- We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.