Saint Teresa of Jesus Quotes

Perfect love has this power: that we forget our happiness to make those we love happy.

If in the midst of adversities the heart perseveres with serenity, with joy, and with peace, this is love.

Whoever has God lacks nothing. God alone is enough.

I have committed the worst of sins, I wanted to be happy.

Read and you will drive, don't read and you will be driven.

Oh, how long this life is! / How hard these exiles are! / This prison, these chains / in which the soul is confined! / Only waiting for the way out causes me such fierce pain, / that I am dying because I do not die.

Although women are not good at giving advice, sometimes we are right.

The untilled land will bear thorns and thistles even though it may be fertile; so is the understanding of man.

Extremes are not good even in virtue.

I do not sell myself, it is the only luxury of the poor.

More tears are shed for answered prayers than for unanswered ones.

And without love everything is nothing.