Quotes by Teresa of Avila

God prefers your health and your obedience to your penance.

Let him never cease from prayer who has once begun it be his life ever so wicked for prayer is the way to amend it and without prayer such amendment will be much more difficult.

From silly devotions and from sour-faced saints good Lord deliver us.

More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.

Granting that we are always in the presence of God yet it seems to me that those who pray are in His presence in a very different sense for they as it were see that He is looking upon them while others may go for days on end without even once recollecting that God sees them.

To wish to act like angels while we are still in this world is nothing but folly.

Dont be curious of matters that dont concern you never speak of them and dont ask about them.

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