Self-denial and mortification…
There is more security in self-denial, mortification, and other like virtues, than in an abundance of tears.
–Saint Teresa of Avila (1515-1582)
Redeemed from myself…
Praised be the Lord, who has redeemed me from myself!
–Saint Teresa of Avila (1515-1582)
Walk with God continually…
Take God for your spouse and friend and walk with Him continually, and you will not sin, will learn to love, and the things you must do will work out prosperously for you.
–Saint Teresa of Avila (1515-1582)
We can know God personally…
Jesus makes a claim which no one would have dared to make: He is the perfect revelation of God. Our knowledge of God is not simply limited to knowing something about God – who he is and what he is like. We can know God personally and be united with him in a relationship of love, trust, and friendship. Jesus makes it possible for each of us to personally know God as our Father. To see Jesus is to see what God is like. In Jesus we see the perfect love of God – a God who cares intensely and who yearns over men and women, loving them to the point of laying down his life for them upon the cross.
–Saint Teresa of Avila (1515-1582)
The soul is capable…
The soul is capable of much more than we can imagine.
–Saint Teresa of Avila (1515-1582)
Humility matters more…
Self-knowledge is so important that, even if you were raised right up to the heavens, I should like you never to relax your cultivation of it; so long as we are on this earth, nothing matters more to us than humility.
–Saint Teresa of Avila (1515-1582)
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