Top 100 Avila Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Avila

#1. Teresa [of Avila]'s story dismantles the common belief that all those chosen for sainthood are flawless in personality and character. Indeed, she would want us to consider her contradictions and struggles as integral to her sainthood.

Helen LaKelly Hunt

#2. She cherished her spiritual books and doesn't deny the debt contracted from some of them. -- Kieran Kavanaugh regarding Teresa of Avila

Kieran Kavanaugh

#3. St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel.

Malcolm Muggeridge

#4. The "interior castle" of the human soul, as Teresa of Avila called it, has many rooms, and they are slowly occupied by God, allowing us time and room to grow.

Dallas Willard

#5. Christ has no body on earth but yours, no hands but yours, no feet but yours. Yours are the eyes through which Christ's compassion for the world is to look out; yours are the feet with which He is to go about doing good; and yours are the hands with which He is to bless us now. SAINT TERESA OF AVILA

Shawn Smucker

#6. Do you even know what Avila is?

Anonymous

#7. Again, I hear almost everyday from atheists who write off religion as primitive, premodern nonsense. I summon Aquinas, Augustine, Paul [of Tarsus], Teresa of Avila, Joseph Ratzinger, and Edith Stein-in all their intellectual rigor-as allies in the the struggle against this dismissive atheism.

Robert Barron

#8. She knew that it was better to have a dream and pay a price for it than to be lukewarm. - regarding St. Teresa of Avila

Mark Salzman

#9. If you fall sometimes, you must not be discouraged.

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#10. I would never want any prayer that would not make the virtues grow within me.

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#11. It is a dangerous thing to be satisfied with ourselves.

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#12. How is it that there are not many who are led by sermons to forsake open sin? Do you know what I think? That is because preachers have too much worldly wisdom.

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#13. Be kind to all and severe to thyself.

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#14. It is of great importance, when we begin to practise prayer, not to let ourselves be frightened by our own thoughts.

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#15. It is no small pity, and should cause us no little shame, that, through our own fault, we do not understand ourselves, or know who we are.

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#16. Do you know when people really become spiritual? It is when they become the slaves of God and are branded with His sign, which is the sign of the Cross, in token that they have given Him their freedom.

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#17. Our soul can find in the Blessed Sacrament all the joys and consolations it desires.

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#18. Prayer is a friendly conversation with the One we know loves us.

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#19. All blessings come to us through our Lord. He will teach us, for in beholding His life we find that He is the best example.

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#20. If you're at the other end of the chase, it would be impossible for me to be disappointed.

Claire Contreras

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

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#22. I like getting carried away by what is happening and then decide each scene based on the actors, the set and the light.

Benjamin Avila

#23. If I were to give advice, I would say to parents that they ought to be very careful whom they allow to mix with their children when young; for much mischief thence ensues, and our natural inclinations are unto evil rather than unto good.

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#24. Either we are the brides of this great King or we are not.

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#25. Oh, my Lord! How true it is that whoever works for you is paid in troubles! And what a precious price to those who love you if we understand its value.

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#26. After you die, you wear what you are.

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#27. The happy result of detachment is inner freedom, freedom from worry about bodily comfort, honor, and wealth. Considering

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#28. For pity's sake, don't start meeting troubles halfway.

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#29. Let nothing perturb you, nothing frighten you. All things pass. God does not change. Patience achieves everything.

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#30. All the troubles of the Church, all the evils in the world, flow from this source: that men do not by clear and sound knowledge and serious consideration penetrate into the truths of Sacred Scripture.

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#31. Whenever conscience commands anything, there is only one thing to fear, and that is fear.

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#32. 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.

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#33. It is true that we cannot be free from sin, but at least let our sins not always be the same.

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#34. We should pray most regularly for those who give us light.

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

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#36. Mental prayer is, as I see it, simply a friendly intercourse and frequent solitary conversation with Him who, as we know, loves us.

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

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#38. I believe, unless I had a new book, I was never happy.

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#39. There is no reason why we should expect everyone else to travel by our own road, and

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#40. But to get to know God's friends is a very good way of "having" Him;

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#41. What value is there in faith without works? And what are they worth if they are not united to the merits of Jesus Christ, our only good?

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#42. He was untamed perfection.

Claire Contreras

#43. 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 stretched out His hand to me. May He be blessed for ever! Amen.

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#44. His Majesty [the Lord] ... rewards great services with trials, and there can be no better reward, for out of trials springs love for God.

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#45. He who has God finds he is lacking nothing.

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#46. However much we do to avoid them, we shall never lack crosses in this life if we are in the ranks of the Crucified.

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#47. You ought to make every effort to free yourselves even from venial sin, and to do what is most perfect.

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#48. In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal. Its works are pleasing both to God and man, rising from the River of Life, beside which it is rooted like a tree.

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#49. Those who in fact risk all for God will find that they have both lost all and gained all.

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#50. Holy church-that mother who is also a queen because she is a king's bride.

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#51. Truth suffers, but never dies.

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#52. How friendly we should all be with one another if nobody were interested in money and honor.

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#53. The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.

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#54. I shouldn't even exist. Neither should they. What's the difference between destroying me and destroying them?" - Lexia Graham

Katheryn J. Avila

#55. O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with which to praise the Lord. It utters a thousand pious follies, in a continuous endeavor to please Him who thus possesses it.

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#56. While the soul is in mortal sin, nothing can profit it; none of its good works merit an eternal reward, since they do not proceed from God as their first principle, and by Him alone is our virtue real virtue.

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#57. We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.

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#58. As I see it, we shall never succeed in knowing ourselves unless we seek to know God: let

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#59. For only the body would die, whereas the loss of a soul is a great loss which is apparently without end;

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#60. 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.

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#61. Christ moves along the pots and pans.

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#62. All things must come to its roots from where it is planted.

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#63. May God protect me from gloomy saints.

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#64. The hour I have long wished for is now come.

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#65. If you seek to carry no other crosses but those whose reason you understand, perfection is not for you.

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#66. I am quite sure that if we could but once approach the Most Holy Sacrament with great faith and love, it would suffice to make us rich. How much more so if we approach it often!

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#67. I often thought my constitution would never endure the work I had to do, (but) the Lord said to me: 'Daughter, obedience gives strength.'

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#68. My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered them meritorious. As to my evil deeds and my sins, He hid them at once. The eyes of those who saw them, He made even blind; and He has blotted them out of their memory.

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#69. Love draws forth love.

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#70. Untilled ground, however rich, will bring forth thistles and thorns; so also the mind of man.

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#71. Each of us has a soul, but we forget to value it. We don't remember that we are creatures made in the image of God. We don't understand the great secrets hidden inside of us.

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#72. Let us live in such a way as not to be afraid to die.

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#73. That is how His Majesty [the Lord] rewards our good works
I mean, by predisposing us to perform better ones.

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#74. I cannot think why we should be astonished at all the evils which exist in the Church, when those who ought to be models on which all may pattern their virtues are annulling the work wrought in the religious Orders by the spirit of the saints of old.

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#75. With all this wide and beautiful creation before me, the restless soul longs to enjoy its liberty and rest beyond its bound.

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#76. How is it, Lord, that we are cowards in everything save in opposing thee?

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#77. May I not come before You with empty hands, since we are rewarded according to our deeds.

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#78. If we practice love of neighbor with great perfection, we will have done everything.

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#79. Do not try to get so much that you achieve nothing. Look

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#80. I would write a thousand foolish things that one might be to the point, if only it might make us praise God more.

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#81. Nothing is small if God accepts it.

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#82. If I should say anything that is not in conformity with what is held by the Holy Roman Catholic Church, it will be through ignorance and not through malice. This may be taken as certain, and also that, through God's goodness, I am, and shall always be, as I always have been, subject to her.

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#83. 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.

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#84. Souls without prayer are like bodies, palsied and lame, having hands and feet they cannot use.

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#85. Humility, however deep it be, neither disquiets nor troubles nor disturbs the soul; it is accompanied by peace, joy and tranquillity.

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#86. May nothing wind you up, nothing affright you; everything comes and goes. God, still, just there; through patience all will be achieved. If you have God, you lack nothing: God alone will do.

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#87. It is a most certain truth, that the richer we see ourselves to be, confessing at the same time our poverty, the greater will be our progress, and the more real our humility.

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#88. It is the nature of love to work in a thousand different ways.

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#89. I believe we shall never learn to know ourselves except by endeavouring to know God, for, beholding His greatness we are struck by our own baseness, His purity shows our foulness, and by meditating on His humility we find how very far we are from being humble. 11.

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#90. Never do anything which you could not do in the sight of all.

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#91. At first it may cause a good deal of trouble, for the body insists on its rights, not understanding that if it refuses to admit defeat it is, as it were, cutting off its own head.

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#92. Let nothing disturb you,
Let nothing frighten you,
All things are passing away:
God never changes.
Patience obtains all things.
Whoever has God lacks nothing;
God alone suffices.

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#93. Let us remember that within us there is a palace of immense magnificence.

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#94. Let there be no disappointment when obedience keeps you busy in outward tasks. If it sends you to the kitchen, remember that the Lord walks among the pots and pans ...

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#95. It is quite important to withdraw from all unnecessary cares and business, as far as compatible with the duties of one's state of life, in order to enter the second mansion.

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