"Granting that we are always in the presence of God yet it seems to me that those who pray are in His presence in a very different sense for they as...












All the trials we endure cannot be compared to these interior battles.
More Teresa of Ávila quotes
"More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.
"Let him never cease from prayer who has once begun it be his life ever so wicked for prayer is the way to amend it and without prayer such amendmen...
"Authentic prayer changes us, unmasks us, strips us, indicates where growth is needed.
"Reflect carefully on this, for it is so important that I can hardly lay too much stress on it. Fix your eyes on the Crucified and nothing else will be...
". . . you must not build upon foundations of prayer and contemplation alone, for, unless you strive after the virtues and practice them, you will neve...
"Mental prayer is, as I see it, simply a friendly intercourse and frequent solitary conversation with Him who, as we know, loves us.
"...aconsejaría yo a los que tienen oración, en especial al principio, procuren amistad y trato con otras personas que traten de lo mismo. Es cosa impo...
"It is of great importance, when we begin to practise prayer, not to let ourselves be frightened by our own thoughts.
"O infinite goodness of my God! It is thus that I seem to see both myself and Thee. O Joy of the angels, how I long, when I think of this, to be wholly...
"I used unexpectedly to experience a consciousness of the presence of God, or such a kind that I could not possibly doubt that He was within me or that...
"Prayer and comfortable living are incompatible.
"From silly devotions and from sour-faced saints good Lord deliver us.