Saint Teresa of Jesus
View AuthorWhoever has God lacks nothing. God alone is enough.
Saint Teresa of Jesus
View AuthorI have committed the worst of sins, I wanted to be happy.
Saint Teresa of Jesus
View AuthorRead and you will drive, don't read and you will be driven.
Saint Teresa of Jesus
View AuthorOh, 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.
Saint Teresa of Jesus
View AuthorAlthough women are not good at giving advice, sometimes we are right.
Saint Teresa of Jesus
View AuthorThe untilled land will bear thorns and thistles even though it may be fertile; so is the understanding of man.
Saint Teresa of Jesus
View AuthorExtremes are not good even in virtue.
Saint Teresa of Jesus
View AuthorFrom absurd devotions and bitter saints, deliver us, Lord.
Saint Teresa of Jesus
View AuthorIt is a joy for me to hear the clock ticking: I see an hour of my life go by and I believe I am a little closer to God.
Saint Teresa of Jesus
View AuthorI live without living in me, and I hope for such a high life that I die because I do not die.
Saint Teresa of Jesus
View AuthorLive life in such a way that it remains alive in death.
Saint Teresa of Jesus
View AuthorLife is a bad night in a bad inn.