Teresa Of Avila

Trust God that you are exactly where you are meant to be.

Jacob did not cease to be a Saint because he had to attend to his flocks.

His Majesty knows best what is suitable for us. There's no need for us to be advising Him about what He should give us, for He can rightly tell us that we don't know what we're asking for (cf. Mt. 20:22). The whole aim of any person who is beginning prayer ? and don't forget this, because it's very important ? should be that he work and prepare himself with determination and every possible effort to bring his will into conformity with God's will.

I only wish I could write with both hands, so as not to forget one thing while I am saying another.

Settle yourself in solitude, and you will come upon God in yourself.

The life of prayer is just love to God, and the custom of being ever with Him.

I made you, dear, and all I make is perfect. Please come close, for I desire you.

Mental prayer is nothing else but being on terms of friendship with God, frequently conversing in secret with Him.

Consider seriously how quickly people change, and how little trust is to be had in them; and hold fast to God, Who does not change.

In all created things discern the providence and wisdom of God, and in all things give Him thanks.

In light of heaven, the worst suffering on earth will be seen to be no more serious than one night in an inconvenient hotel.

The hour I have long wished for is now come.

Strive to close the eyes of the body and open those of the soul and look into your own heart.

Nothing is small if God accepts it.

The closer one approaches to God, the simpler one becomes.

It is not so essential to think much as to love much.

Desire to see God, be fearful of losing Him, and find joy in everything that can lead to Him. If you act in this way, you will always live in great peace.

Christ has no body now but mine. He prays in me, works in me, looks through my eyes, speaks through my words, works through my hands, walks with my feet and loves with my heart.

How is it that we do not die of love in seeing that God Himself could do no more than shed His divine blood for us drop by drop? When as man He was preparing for death, He made Himself our food in order to give us life. God becomes food, bread for his creatures. Is this not enough to make us die of love?

Keep this in mind, for it is very important advice, so do not neglect it until you find you have such a fixed determination not to offend the Lord that you would rather lose a thousand lives and be persecuted by the whole world, than commit one mortal sin, and until you are most careful not to commit venial sins.

Let us consider what the glorious Virgin endured, and what the holy apostles suffered, and we shall find that they who were nearest to Jesus Christ were the most afflicted.