St Teresa Quotes

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

Malcolm Muggeridge

#2. Even St. Teresa said, "I can pray better when I'm comfortable," and she refused to wear her haircloth shirt or starve herself. I don't think living in cellars and starving is better for an artist than it is for anybody else.

Katherine Anne Porter

#3. God and Satan play poker with Tarot cards for the soul of an alcoholic sandwich-bag salesman obsessed with Bernini's 'The Ecstasy of St. Teresa.

David Foster Wallace

#4. 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

#5. Once, when I was grumbling over being obliged to eat meat and do no penance, I heard it said that sometimes there was more of self-love than desire of penance in such sorrow. St. Teresa

Aldous Huxley

#6. Live The Life That You Love

Teresa St. Frances

#7. The other day I dreamed that I was at the gates of heaven. And St. Peter said, 'Go back to Earth, there are no slums up here.'

Mother Teresa

#8. Time is running out for the climate

Chris Rose

#9. Some actors have to make a choice. If they have the opportunity to become these huge megastars, making millions and millions of dollars and have to live a lie, that's a choice they have to make. Not that I would ever be a big star, but I just had to live my life the way I saw fit.

Bryan Batt

#10. There is no question of defence. I have always acted in accordance with the dictates of my conscience. I have nothing with which to reproach myself.

Agatha Christie

#11. When you're living your life in endurance mode, you don't expect anything good to happen. I'm not saying that you don't dream about some miracle that would change everything for the better. But you pretty much know it's only a fantasy, and that you have no real control over anything.

Nancy Werlin

#12. In choosing candidates for this challenging way of life, she emphasised intelligence and good judgment ("GOD PRESERVE US FROM STUPID NUNS !! )

. It was her conviction that intelligent people can better be aware of their faults and, at the same time, see the need to be guided.

St Teresa Of Avila

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

Teresa Of Avila

#14. To be a human being means to be lonely.To go on becoming a person means exploring new modes of resting in our loneliness.

Robert Hobson

#15. It is not enough for us to say: "I love God," but I also have to love my neighbor. St. John says that you are a liar if you say you love God and you don't love your neighbor. How can you love God whom you do not see, if you do not love your neighbor whom you see, whom you touch, with whom you live?

Mother Teresa

#16. Let nothing disturb you, nothing frighten you, all things are passing, God is unchanging. Patience gains all; nothing is lacking to those who have God: God alone is sufficient.

Teresa Of Avila

#17. After my training wheels, my first real bike was a Schwinn, and my first time out, I rode down a hill, didn't know how to stop, and ran right into a tree. So, that was a nice experience ... like realizing, oh, there are brakes!

Robin Williams

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

Teresa Of Avila

#19. I'm in a male-dominated industry.

Diane Hendricks

#20. As a Christian I have no duty to allow myself to be cheated, but I have the duty to be a fighter for truth and justice.
Speeches

Adolf Hitler

#21. Having difficult times and grief and brokenness, does not mean that life is over. These are just bumps in the road, obstacles to be overcome and made stepping stones into a long successful life.

Teresa St. Frances