Top 180 Teresa of Ávila Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Christ has no body now on earth but yours, no hands, no feet but yours. Yours are the eyes with which Christ looks out his compassion to the world. Yours are the feet with which he is to go about doing good. Yours are the hands with which he is to bless us now.”

— Teresa of Ávila

2. “Let nothing disturb you. Let nothing frighten you. Everything passes away except God. God alone is sufficient.”

— Teresa of Ávila

3. “Christ has no body now on earth but yours.”

— Teresa of Ávila

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4. “Trust God that you are exactly where you are meant to be.”

— Teresa of Ávila

5. “Don’t be curious of matters that don’t concern you; never speak of them, and don’t ask about them.”

— Teresa of Ávila

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6. “Never compare one person with another: comparisons are odious.”

— Teresa of Ávila

7. “Let nothing disturb thee, let nothing affright thee. All things are passing. Patience obtains all things. He who has God has everything – God alone suffices.”

— Teresa of Ávila

8. “You pay God a compliment by asking great things of Him.”

— Teresa of Ávila

9. “God has no hands or feet or voice except ours and through these He works.”

— Teresa of Ávila

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

— Teresa of Ávila

11. “Let nothing perturb you, nothing frighten you. All things pass. God does not change. Patience achieves everything.”

— Teresa of Ávila

12. “Teach by works more than words.”

— Teresa of Ávila

13. “We always find that those who walked closest to Christ were those who had to bear the greatest trials.”

— Teresa of Ávila

14. “It is love alone that gives worth to all things.”

— Teresa of Ávila

15. “From heaven even the most miserable life will look like one bad night at an inconvenient hotel.”

— Teresa of Ávila

16. “Before prayer, endeavor to realize whose Presence you are approaching, and to whom you are about to speak. We can never fully understand how we ought to behave towards God, before whom the angels tremble.”

— Teresa of Ávila

17. “Prayer is an act of love. Words are not needed.”

— Teresa of Ávila

18. “From silly devotions and from sour-faced saints, good Lord, deliver us.”

— Teresa of Ávila

19. “Whoever has God lacks nothing. God alone suffices.”

— Teresa of Ávila

20. “The surest way to determine whether one possesses the love of God is to see whether he or she loves his or her neighbor. These two loves are never separated. Rest assured, the more you progress in love of neighbor the more your love of God will increase.”

— Teresa of Ávila

21. “Always think of yourself as everyone’s servant; look for Christ Our Lord in everyone and you will then have respect and reverence for them all.”

— Teresa of Ávila

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

— Teresa of Ávila

23. “He who has God finds he is lacking nothing.”

— Teresa of Ávila

24. “God is even kinder than you think.”

— Teresa of Ávila

25. “God never changes; Patient endurance Attains to all things; Who God possesses In nothing is wanting; Alone God suffices.”

— Teresa of Ávila

26. “What a miserable life is this! There is no happiness that is secure and nothing that does not change.”

— Teresa of Ávila

27. “Love draws forth love.”

— Teresa of Ávila

28. “Patience obtains everything.”

— Teresa of Ávila

29. “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.”

— Teresa of Ávila

30. “May God protect me from gloomy saints.”

— Teresa of Ávila

31. “The important thing is not to think much but to love much; do, then, whatever most arouses you to love.”

— Teresa of Ávila

32. “Truth suffers, but never dies.”

— Teresa of Ávila

33. “What peace can we hope to find elsewhere if we have none within us.”

— Teresa of Ávila

34. “Every part of the journey is of importance to the whole.”

— Teresa of Ávila

35. “Humility must always be doing its work like a bee making honey in the hive: without humility all will be lost.”

— Teresa of Ávila

36. “Prayer is a friendly conversation with the One we know loves us.”

— Teresa of Ávila

37. “Souls without prayer are like bodies, palsied and lame, having hands and feet they cannot use.”

— Teresa of Ávila

38. “It is a dangerous thing to be satisfied with ourselves.”

— Teresa of Ávila

39. “What a great favor God does to those He places in the company of good people!”

— Teresa of Ávila

40. “If this is the way You treat Your friends, no wonder You have so few!”

— Teresa of Ávila

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

— Teresa of Ávila

42. “Out of suffering comes the serious mind; out of salvation, the grateful heart; out of endurance, fortitude; out of deliverance faith. Patient endurance attends to all things.”

— Teresa of Ávila

43. “Never exaggerate, but express your feelings with moderation.”

— Teresa of Ávila

44. “As God’s beloved, I live in the bliss knowing that my soul is never separated from Him, for I learn to know Her in all that I see. God dissolved my mind-my separation. I cannot describe now my intimacy with Him.”

— Teresa of Ávila

45. “After you die, you wear what you are.”

— Teresa of Ávila

46. “It constantly happens that the Lord permits a soul to fall so that it may grow humbler.”

— Teresa of Ávila

47. “Anyone who truly loves God travels securely.”

— Teresa of Ávila

48. “We shall never learn to know ourselves except by endeavoring to know God; for, beholding His greatness, we realize our own littleness; His purity shows us our foulness; and by meditating upon His humility we find how very far we are from being humble.”

— Teresa of Ávila

49. “Love turns work into rest.”

— Teresa of Ávila

50. “Hope, O my soul, hope. Watch carefully, for everything passes quickly, even though your impatience turns a very short time into a long one.”

— Teresa of Ávila