20 phrases from Santa Teresa d’Ávila that show a lot of devotion

Friendship is a person’s truest fulfillment.

The Lord does not look so much at the greatness of our works. Look more at the love with which they are made.

In my view, prayer is nothing other than dealing intimately with the One we know loves us, and often talking alone with Him.

Do you think that God does not speak, because His voice is not heard? When it is the heart that prays, He answers.

I lack everything, my Lord, but if You do not forsake me, I will not lack You.

Humility is the truth.

I want to see God, and for that it is necessary to die. I don’t die, but I enter life.

A proof that God is with us is not the fact that we do not fall, but that we rise after each fall.

A grace like that is enough to transform a whole soul.

True humility lies in our willingness to be content with what the Lord wants of us.

If we don’t listen to the Lord when He calls us, we may not be able to find Him when we want to.

The closer a person gets to God, the simpler he becomes.⁠

If you have humility, don’t be afraid! The Lord will not allow you to be deceived or to deceive others.

Let nothing disturb you, nothing frighten you, everything passes, God does not change, patience achieves everything; whoever has God lacks nothing: only God is enough.

The essential thing is not to think a lot, it is to love a lot.

Life is just a night spent in a bad inn.

The Lord loves us more than we love ourselves.

Look who’s looking at you.

Do not be deceived by anyone who shows you a path other than that of prayer.

Happy are the lives that are spent in the service of the Church.