Saint Teresa of Jesus Quote

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

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

Saint Teresa of Jesus

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

Saint Teresa of Jesus

Whoever has God lacks nothing. God alone is enough.

Saint Teresa of Jesus

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

Saint Teresa of Jesus

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

Saint Teresa of Jesus

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.

Saint Teresa of Jesus

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

Saint Teresa of Jesus

Extremes are not good even in virtue.

Saint Teresa of Jesus

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

Saint Teresa of Jesus

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

Saint Teresa of Jesus

And without love everything is nothing.

Saint Teresa of Jesus