More from Teresa of Avila (Teresa de Jesus)

  1. There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
  2. To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
  3. The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.
  4. We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.
  5. Prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.
  6. We know only that we are living in these bodies and have a vague idea, because we have heard it, and because our faith tells us so, that we…
  7. Pain is never permanent.
  8. We shall never learn to know ourselves except by endeavoring to know God; for, beholding His greatness, we realize our own littleness; His …

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