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St Teresa of Ávila
St Teresa of Ávila
- Our goodness derives not from our capacity to think but to love.Book of the Foundations (1610)
- God walks among the pots and pans.Book of the Foundations (1610)
- The important thing is not to think much but to love much.The Interior Castle (1588) Mansion 4, ch. 1, para. 7
- Let nothing trouble you, nothing frighten you. All things are passing; God never changes. Patient endurance attains all things. Whoever possesses God lacks nothing: God alone suffices.‘St Teresa's Bookmark’; found in her breviary after her death
- Prayer in my opinion is nothing else than an intimate sharing between friends.Life of the Mother Teresa of Jesus (1611)
- There is no such thing as bad weather. All weather is good because it is God's.attributed; H. Ward and J. Wild (eds.) The Lion Christian Quotation Collection (1997)