Quote #26
We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.
More from Teresa of Avila (Teresa de Jesus)
- To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
- 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…
- To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.
- We shall never learn to know ourselves except by endeavoring to know God; for, beholding His greatness, we realize our own littleness; His …
- There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
- The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.
- Prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.
- Pain is never permanent.