Teresa of Avila Quotes about Sleep

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God gave us faculties for our use; each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us try to charm them to sleep, but permit them to do their work until divinely called to something higher.

God gave us faculties for our use; each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us try to charm them to sleep, but permit them to do their work until divinely called to something higher.

Teresa of Avila

Sleep, Humility, Trying

St. Teresa of Avila (2011). “The Interior Castle: or the Mansions”, p.83, TAN Books

What misery to live in this world! We are like men whose enemies are at the door, who must not lay aside their arms, even while sleeping or eating, and are always in dread lest the foe should enter the fortress by some breach in the walls. O my Lord and my all! How canst thou wish us to prize such a wretched existence?

Teresa of Avila

Life, Wall, Sleep

St. Teresa of Avila (1921). “The Interior Castle, or the Mansions”, p.4, Library of Alexandria