Desire to see God, be fearful of losing Him, and find joy in everything that can lead to Him. If you act in this way, you will always live in great peace.
Teresa of AvilaI am afraid that if we begin to put our trust in human help, some of our Divine help will fail us.
Teresa of AvilaIf we practice love of neighbor with great perfection, we will have done everything.
Teresa of AvilaI once heard a spiritual man say that he was not so much astonished at the things done by a soul in mortal sin as at the things not done by it. May God, in his mercy, deliver us from such great evil, for there is nothing in the whole of our lives that so thoroughly deserves to be called evil as this, since it brings endless and eternal evils in its train.
Teresa of Avila