St Avila Teresa Quotes & Sayings

The social aspect of blogging is just as important as the content, so to borrow a phrase from the 1960s: the medium is the message. And my personal experience shows me that the potential of this medium is extra large. — Mark Powell

On a UNIX system, everything is a file; if something is not a file, it is a process. — Machtelt Garrels

She knew that it was better to have a dream and pay a price for it than to be lukewarm. - regarding St. Teresa of Avila — Mark Salzman

Those who give themselves to prayer should in a special manner have always a devotion to St. Joseph; for I know not how any man can think of the Queen of the angels, during the time that she suffered so much with the Infant Jesus, without giving thanks to St. Joseph for the services he rendered them then. — Saint Teresa Of Avila

I would write a thousand foolish things that one might be to the point, if only it might make us praise God more. — Teresa Of Avila

The time to lead is now. — Joelle Charbonneau

St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel. — Malcolm Muggeridge

A book consist of thoughts that for a moment don't mind holding hands. — Garry Fitchett

The closer one approaches to God, the simpler one becomes. — Teresa Of Avila

St. Teresa of Avila wrote: 'All difficulties in prayer can be traced to one cause: praying as if God were absent.' This is the conviction that we bring with us from early childhood and apply to everyday life and to our lives in general. It gets stronger as we grow up, unless we are touched by the Gospel and begin the spiritual journey. This journey is a process of dismantling the monumental illusion that God is distant or absent. — Thomas Keating

Those indoctrinated by leftist thinking become largely incapable of making accurate moral judgments. — Dennis Prager

It is almost impossible to substitute intelligence for experience. — Edward R. Murrow

In choosing candidates for this challenging way of life, she emphasised intelligence and good judgment ("GOD PRESERVE US FROM STUPID NUNS !! )

. It was her conviction that intelligent people can better be aware of their faults and, at the same time, see the need to be guided. — St Teresa Of Avila

Let nothing disturb you, nothing frighten you, all things are passing, God is unchanging. Patience gains all; nothing is lacking to those who have God: God alone is sufficient. — Teresa Of Avila

The exit polls suggest that after a relatively disappointing first term, Obama managed to reassemble almost all of his 2008 electorate. — John Podhoretz

Although man is already ninety per cent water, the Prohibitionists are not yet satisfied. — John Kendrick Bangs

It is possible to conceive conflict as not necessarily a wasteful outbreak of incompatibilities, but a normal process by which socially valuable differences register themselves for the enrichment of all concerned. — Mary Parker Follett

In the tradition of Julian of Norwich and St. Teresa of Avila and all the other mystics, we can learn to render ourselves vulnerable to the "favors of God" - those indescribable experiences that mock our dualisms and so saturate our imagination with abundance that they transcend our ability to convey joy and wonder. In the tradition of St. John of the Cross, we can learn to survive and derive benefits from the soul's dark night. — Brian D. McLaren