Teresa of Avila Quotes about Love

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It is not a matter of thinking a great deal but of loving a great deal, so do whatever arouses you most to love.

It is not a matter of thinking a great deal but of loving a great deal, so do whatever arouses you most to love.

Teresa of Avila

Love, Thinking, Matter

Love makes labour light. Love alone gives value to all things.

Teresa of Avila

Love, Light, Giving

Prayer is an act of love; words are not needed. Even if sickness distracts from thoughts, all that is needed is the will to love.

Teresa of Avila

Love, Prayer, Sickness

It is the nature of love to work in a thousand different ways.

Teresa of Avila

Love, Different, Way

Love draws forth love.

Teresa of Avila

Love, Draws

St Teresa of Avila (2008). “The Life of St. Teresa of Avila”, p.165, Cosimo, Inc.

It is not so essential to think much as to love much.

Teresa of Avila

Love, Faith, Christian

St. Teresa of Avila (2014). “The Interior Castle (Annotated Edition)”, p.12, Jazzybee Verlag

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Teresa of Avila

Love, Sacrifice, Soul

Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.

Teresa of Avila

Love, Christian, Pregnancy

Saint Teresa (of Avila) (1946). “Book of the foundations. Minor prose works. Poems. Documents. Indices”

The important thing is not to think much but to love much; do, then, whatever most arouses you to love.

Teresa of Avila

Love, Inspiring, Marriage

St. Teresa of Avila (2002). “Complete Works St. Teresa Of Avila”, p.233, A&C Black

It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found - not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila

Love, Daughter, Mother

St. Teresa of Avila (2002). “Complete Works St. Teresa Of Avila”, p.25, A&C Black

In order to profit from this path [of prayer] and ascend to the dwelling places we desire, the important thing is not to think much but to love much; and so, do that which best stirs you to love.

Teresa of Avila

Love, Prayer, Thinking

Teresa of Avila (2011). “The Collected Works of St. Teresa of Avila, vol 2”, p.146, ICS Publications

So dearly does His Majesty love us that He will reward our love for our neighbor by increasing the love which we bear to Himself, and that in a thousand ways.

Teresa of Avila

Love, Christian, Doe

St. Teresa of Avila (2002). “Complete Works St. Teresa Of Avila”, p.261, A&C Black