Teresa of Ávila quote: "May today there be peace within. May you trust God that you are exactly where you are meant to be. May you not forget the infinite possibilities that are born of faith. May you use those gifts that you have received, and pass on the love that has been given to you. May you be content knowing you are a child of God. Let this presence settle into your bones, and allow your soul the freedom to sing, dance, praise and love. It is there for each and every one of us."

Let nothing disturb you,
Let nothing frighten you,
All things are passing away:
God n...
TERESA OF ÁVILA

Christ has no body now but yours. No hands, no feet on earth but yours. Yours are the eyes through w...
TERESA OF ÁVILA

Christ has no body now on earth but yours,
no hands but yours,
no feet but yours,
Y...
TERESA OF ÁVILA

I am quite sure I am more afraid of people who are themselves terrified of the devil than I am of th...
TERESA OF ÁVILA

God save us from gloomy saints!
TERESA OF ÁVILA

Thank God for the things that I do not own.
TERESA OF ÁVILA

I know a person who, though no poet, composed some verses in a very short time, which were full of f...
TERESA OF ÁVILA

I cannot think why we should be astonished at all the evils which exist in the Church, when those wh...
TERESA OF ÁVILA

. . . it is presumptuous in me to wish to choose my path, because I cannot tell which path is best f...
TERESA OF ÁVILA

The devil frequently fills our thoughts with great schemes, so that instead of putting our hands to ...
TERESA OF ÁVILA

Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself.
TERESA OF ÁVILA

It is love alone that gives worth to all things.
TERESA OF ÁVILA

Let nothing disturb you. Let nothing frighten you. Everything passes away except God.
TERESA OF ÁVILA

For if the will has nothing to employ it and love has no present object with which to busy itself, t...
TERESA OF ÁVILA

If this is how you treat your friends, no wonder you have so many enemies.
TERESA OF ÁVILA

It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of...
TERESA OF AVILA

We bloomed in Spring. Our bodies are the leaves of God. The apparent seasons of life and death our e...
TERESA OF AVILA

We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can -- namely, surrender our will and fulfill God...
TERESA OF AVILA

Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
TERESA OF AVILA

To have courage for whatever comes in life -- everything lies in that.
TERESA OF AVILA

We know only that we are living in these bodies and have a vague idea, because we have heard it, and...
TERESA OF AVILA

O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with whic...
TERESA OF AVILA

To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
TERESA OF AVILA

True recollection has characteristics by which it can be easily recognized. It produces a certain ef...
TERESA OF AVILA

Do not dismayed daughters, at the number of things which you have to consider before setting out on ...
TERESA OF AVILA

Feast of Teresa of Avila, Mystic, Teacher, 1582 We shall never learn to know ourselves except b...
TERESA OF AVILA

Commemoration of Caroline Chisholm, Social Reformer, 1877 I know the power obedience has of making...
TERESA OF AVILA

We cannot know whether we love God, although there may be strong reason for thinking so; but there c...
TERESA OF AVILA

Feast of Teresa of Avila, Mystic, Teacher, 1582 Our body has this defect that, the more it is p...
TERESA OF AVILA

God gave us faculties for our use; each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us t...
TERESA OF AVILA

Feast of Teresa of Avila, Mystic, Teacher, 1582 I had one brother almost of my own age, whom I lo...
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Feast of Teresa of Avila, Mystic, Teacher, 1582 God has been very good to me, for I never dwell...
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I am more afraid of those who are terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.
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My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my ...
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I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent cryst...
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I have often thought with wonder of the great goodness of God; and my soul has rejoiced in the conte...
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What friends or kindred can be so close and intimate as the powers of our soul, which, whether we wi...
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I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.
SAINT TERESA OF AVILA

If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets, w...
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We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God&...
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The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.
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All things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted.
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I was living an extremely burdensome life, because every time I prayed, I became more clearly aware ...
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Let nothing disturb thee; Let nothing dismay thee; All thing pass; God never changes. Patience attai...
ST. TERESA OF AVILA

It is true that we cannot be free from sin, but at least let our sins not be always the same . . .
ST. TERESA OF AVILA

If we accept that a mother can kill even her own child, how can we tell other people to not kill eac...
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA

The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted
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If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
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Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
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These concerns (for orphan children in India and elsewhere in the world) are very good, but often th...
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA

The devil put before me that I could not endure the trials of the religious life, because of my deli...
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I had many friends to help me to fall; but as to rising again, I was so much left to myself, that I ...
SAINT TERESA OF AVILA

It is no small misfortune and disgrace that, through our own fault, we neither understand our nature...
SAINT TERESA OF AVILA

Mental prayer in my opinion is nothing else than an intimate sharing between friends; it means takin...
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May God protect me from gloomy saints.
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Those who give themselves to prayer should in a special manner have always a devotion to St. Joseph;...
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If Christ Jesus dwells in a man as his friend and noble leader, that man can endure all things, for ...
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Prayer is an act of love; words are not needed. Even if sickness distracts from thoughts, all that i...
SAINT TERESA OF AVILA

If I should say anything that is not in conformity with what is held by the Holy Roman Catholic Chur...
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Nothing can be compared to the great beauty and capabilities of a soul; however keen our intellects ...
SAINT TERESA OF AVILA

A beginner must look on himself as one setting out to make a garden for his Lord's pleasure, on ...
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Whoever has not begun the practice of prayer, I beg for the love of the Lord not to go without so gr...
SAINT TERESA OF AVILA

To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
SAINT TERESA OF AVILA

Whenever we think of Christ, we should recall the love that led Him to bestow on us so many graces a...
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In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of cleare...
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The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.
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Don't let your sins turn into bad habits.
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True holiness consists in doing God's will with a smile
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA

Spread love everywhere you go: First of all in your own house... let no one ever come to you without...
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See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how ...
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA

We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwan...
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA

It is poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA

There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
SAINT TERESA OF AVILA

More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.
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The custom of speaking to God Almighty as freely as with a slave - caring nothing whether the words ...
SAINT TERESA OF AVILA

Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing tri...
SAINT TERESA OF AVILA

Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires...
SAINT TERESA OF AVILA

God gave us faculties for our use; each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us t...
SAINT TERESA OF AVILA

Discontent with this world gives such a painful longing to quit it that, if the heart finds comfort,...
SAINT TERESA OF AVILA

I had a father and mother, who were devout and feared God. Our Lord also helped me with His grace. A...
SAINT TERESA OF AVILA

I prefer you to make mistakes in kindness than work miracles in unkindness.
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less be...
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA

The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA

I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him.
SAINT TERESA OF AVILA

For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.
SAINT TERESA OF AVILA

Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
SAINT TERESA OF AVILA

Anyone who truly loves God travels securely.
SAINT TERESA OF AVILA

Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
SAINT TERESA OF AVILA

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA

Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA

If all my friends were to jump off a bridge, I wouldn't follow. I'd be at the bottom to catch them w...
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA

The trouble is that rich people, well-to-do people, very often don't really know who the poor are; a...
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA

I have come to realize more and more that the greatest disease and the greatest suffering is to be u...
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA

God doesn't require us to succeed; he only requires that you try
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA

I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world.
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA

The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child what is left ...
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA

There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only...
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA

Like Jesus we belong to the world living not for ourselves but for others. The joy of the Lord is ou...
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A clean heart is a free heart. A free heart can love Christ with an undivided love in chastity, conv...
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it doesn't matter who it is, and that will help you to grow up in greater love for each other.
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We the willing, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so m...
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA

Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.
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The fruit of faith is love
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Let us make one point, that we meet each other with a smile, when it is difficult to smile. Smile at...
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA

If we want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to...
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA

Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.
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The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA

To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it.
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Good works are links that form a chain of love.
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What we say does not matter - only what God says to souls through us.
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA

Loneliness is the most terrible poverty.
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA

Facing the media is more difficult than bathing a leper.
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA

Intense love does not measure; it just gives
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA

It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA

There should be less talk. A preaching point is not a meeting point.
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It is Christmas every time you let God love others through you . . . yes, it is Christmas every time...
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Unless a life is lived for others, it is not worthwhile
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA

When I took the habit, the Lord immediately showed me how He favours those who do violence to themse...
SAINT TERESA OF AVILA

When the soul, through its own fault... becomes rooted in a pool of pitch-black, evil smelling water...
SAINT TERESA OF AVILA

While the soul is in mortal sin, nothing can profit it; none of its good works merit an eternal rewa...
SAINT TERESA OF AVILA

O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with whic...
SAINT TERESA OF AVILA

To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
ST. TERESA OF AVILA

More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.
ST. TERESA OF AVILA

About the injunction of the Apostle Paul that women should keep silent in church? Don't go by one te...
ST. TERESA OF AVILA

Learn to selfconquest, persevere thus for a time, and you will perceive very clearly the advantage w...
ST. TERESA OF AVILA

We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can / namely, surrender our will and fulfill God'...
ST. TERESA OF AVILA

If we plant a flower or a shrub and water it daily it will grow so tall that in time we shall need a...
ST. TERESA OF AVILA

I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him.
ST. TERESA OF AVILA

O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with whic...
ST. TERESA OF AVILA

The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.
ST. TERESA OF AVILA

It is true that we cannot be free from sin, but at least let our sins not be always the same.
ST. TERESA OF AVILA

Untilled soil, however fertile it may be, will bear thistles and thorns; and so it is with man's min...
ST. TERESA OF AVILA

There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
ST. TERESA OF AVILA

I don't know what heavy penance I would not have gladly undertaken rather than practice prayer.
SAINT TERESA OF AVILA

I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish He didn't trust me so much.
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA

Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
ST. TERESA OF AVILA

I think I'm more difficult than critical.
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA

If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.
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You can't undo anything you've already done, but you can face up to it. You can tell the truth. You ...
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA

There are no accidents. God's just trying to remain anonymous.
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The key is to get to know people and trust them to be who they are. Instead, we trust people to be w...
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA

If I were to give advice, I would say to parents that they ought to be very careful whom they allow ...
SAINT TERESA OF AVILA

Do you think it is only a little thing to possess a house from which lovely things can be seen?
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What value is there in faith without works? And what are they worth if they are not united to the me...
SAINT TERESA OF AVILA

Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have receiv...
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA

We have not come into the world to be numbered; we have been created for a purpose; for great things...
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA

Love begins by taking care of the closest ones-the ones at home.
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It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. It is easie...
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA

We cannot all do great things, but we can do small things with great love.
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Let us consider the glorious Saint Paul: it seems that no other name fell from his lips than that of...
SAINT TERESA OF AVILA

I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door neighbor?
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA

Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe t...
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA

If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
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There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the ...
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In the name of the hungry, of the naked, of the crippled, of the homeless, of the blind, in their na...
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. The r...
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA

Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself.
ST. TERESA OF AVILA

I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA

What I do you cannot do; but what you do, I cannot do. The needs are great, and none of us, includin...
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA

Peace begins with a smile.
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA

Prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.
ST. TERESA OF AVILA

There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a bro...
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA

Love is a fruit in season at all times, and in reach of every hand.
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA

How is it, Lord, that we are cowards in everything save in opposing Thee?
ST. TERESA OF AVILA

Remember that you have only one soul; that you have only one death to die; that you have only one li...
ST. TERESA OF AVILA

There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA

It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA

It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found / not hidden away in corners but in the midst of ...
ST. TERESA OF AVILA

It is love alone that gives worth to all things
ST. TERESA OF AVILA

Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA

If we plant a flower or a shrub and water it daily it will grow so tall that in time we shall need a...
ST. TERESA OF AVILA

We are all pencils in the hand of God.
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA

I believe in person to person. Every person is Christ for me, and since there is only one Jesus, tha...
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA

We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA

If we really want to love we must learn how to forgive.
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA

It is a kingly act to assist the fallen.
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The success of love is in the loving - it is not in the result of loving. Of course it is natural in...
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA

Love has a hem to her garment that reaches the very dust. It sweeps the streets and lanes, and becau...
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA

Kind words are short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA

Smile at each other, smile at your wife, smile at your husband, smile at your children, smile at eac...
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA

I do not pray for success, I ask for faithfulness.
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA

I never look at the masses as my responsibility; I look at the individual. I can only love one perso...
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA

Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love wit...
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA

We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA

We may not be able to give much but we can always give the joy that springs in a heart that is in lo...
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA

Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call...
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA

Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA

Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA

Do not dismayed daughters, at the number of things which you have to consider before setting out on ...
ST. TERESA OF AVILA

What a great favor God does to those He places in the company of good people!
ST. TERESA OF AVILA

To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.
ST. TERESA OF AVILA

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA

Learn to self-conquest, persevere thus for a time, and you will perceive very clearly the advantage ...
ST. TERESA OF AVILA

One must really have suffered oneself to help others.
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA

When God gave you to me he never said that you were mine, that I could keep you always--only borrowe...
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA

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