Saint teresa of avila

Don't let your sins turn into bad habits.

I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions.

More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.

There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.

When I took the habit, the Lord immediately showed me how He favours those who do violence to themselves in order to serve Him. No one saw what I endured... At the moment of my entrance into this new...

I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.

Pain is never permanent.

All things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted.

I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him.

I had many friends to help me to fall; but as to rising again, I was so much left to myself, that I wonder now I was not always on the ground. I praise God for His mercy; for it was He only Who...