Saint Teresa of Avila

Saint Teresa of Avila (c. 1515-1582)

"My head sounds just as if it were full of brimming rivers, and then as if all the water in those rivers came suddenly rushing downward; and a host of little birds seem to be whistling, not in the ears, but in the upper part of the head, where the higher part of the soul is said to be."

• From Interior Castle (Fourth Mansions, chapter I) by St. Teresa of Avila, translated by E. Allison Peers (Dover Publications, 2007).

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Saint Teresa of Avila

Saint Teresa of Avila (c. 1515-1582)

"Let us leave our reason and our fears in His hands and let us forget the weakness of our nature which is apt to cause us so much worry."

• From Interior Castle (Third Mansions, chapter II) by St. Teresa of Avila, translated by E. Allison Peers (Dover Publications, 2007). 

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Saint Teresa of Avila

Saint Teresa of Avila (c. 1515-1582)

"Oh, the secrets of God! I should never weary of trying to describe them to you. If I thought I could do so successfully. I do not mind if I write any amount of nonsense, provided that just once in a way I can write sense, so that we may give great praise to the Lord."

• From Interior Castle (Fifth Mansions, chapter I) by St. Teresa of Avila, translated by E. Allison Peers (Dover Publications, 2007).

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St. Teresa of Avila

St. Teresa of Avila (c. 1515-1582)

"The soul remains all the time in that centre with its God. We might say that union is as if the ends of two wax candles were joined so that the light they give is one: the wicks and the wax and the light are all one."

• From Interior Castle (Seventh Mansions, chapter II) by St. Teresa of Avila, translated by E. Allison Peers (Dover Publications, 2007).

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Saint Teresa of Avila

Saint Teresa of Avila (1515-1582 CE)

"In this life, then, the soul has a very bad time, for, however much it accomplishes, it is strong enough inwardly to attempt much more and this causes such strife within it that nothing it can do seems to it of any importance."

• From Interior Castle by St. Teresa of Avila, translated by E. Allison Peers (Dover Publications, 2007).

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St. Teresa of Avila

St. Teresa of Avila (1515-1582 CE)

"It should be noted here that it is not the spring, or the brilliant sun which is in the centre of the soul, that loses its splendour and beauty, for they are always within it and nothing can take away their beauty."

• From S. Teresa of Avila's Interior Castle, translated by E. Allison Peers (Dover Publications, 2007).

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St Teresa of Avilla

Saint Teresa of Avila (1515-1582 CE)

"Self-knowledge is so important that, even if you were raised right up to the heavens, I should like you never to relax your cultivation of it: so long as we are on this earth, nothing matters more to us than humility."

• From St. Teresa of Avila's Interior Castle, translated by E. Allison Peers.

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St. Teresa of Avila

St. Teresa of Avila (1515-1582 CE)

"True perfection consists in the love of God and of our neighbor, and the more nearly perfect is our observance of these two commandments, the nearer to perfection we shall be."

• From Interior Castle by St. Teresa of Avila, translated by E. Allison Peers. The background image of St. Teresa is licensed under Creative Commons 4.0 (CC 4.0).

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St. Teresa of Avila

St. Teresa of Avila (1515-1582)

"I can find nothing with which to compare the great beauty of a soul and its great capacity."

• From the Interior Castle of St. Teresa of Avila, edited by E. Allison Peers.

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Saint Teresa of Avila

 

Saint Teresa of Avila (1515-1582)

"I believe that in every little thing created by God there is more than we realize, even in so small a thing as a tiny ant."

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