Teresa of Avila Quotes

We understand God by everything in ourselves that is fragmentary, incomplete, and inopportune.

Woman is a ray of God. She is not that earthly beloved: she is creative, not created.

Every life is precious to God. God created every one of us. He gave us a soul, and that soul will live as long as God lives.

The world is a living image of God.

Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls.

In order to be an image of God, the spirit must turn to what is eternal, hold it in spirit, keep it in memory, and by loving it, embrace it in the will.

The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.

Humanity was created in the image of God; our love is a reflection of his.

I'm art. You're art. We are God's greatest works, simple as that.

But God, who is immortal, has no need of difference of sex, nor of succession.

What I love about believing in a living God is that I believe God is constantly revealing God's self to us over time, and with each succeeding generation, we come a little closer to understanding the mind of God.

How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.

Jesus was a human being who, while on Earth, completely self-actualized and fulfilled in all ways the potential glory that lies within us all.

God made beauty so we'd know how He felt about us.

As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.

My belief in God is that God wants you. God wants you to believe in him, or it, whatever you would call it.

More are the names of God and infinite are the forms through which He may be approached. In whatever name and form you worship Him, through them you will realise Him.

Every person is a God in embryo. Its only desire is to be born.

Before we can know God and understand his great plan it is first necessary for us to believe that he exists and that he rewards all who diligently seek him.

There is no greater power in Heaven or on Earth than pure, unconditional love. The nature of the God force, the unseen intelligence in all things, which causes the material world and is the center of both the spiritual and physical plane, is best described as pure, unconditional love.

Their spirituality was in nature, even though Emerson was a preacher on the pulpit, he ended up going out into nature for direct, face-to-face communication with God, if you want to call all of this creation part of God.

God cannot be reduced to a sample for analysis.

The essence of religion is the knowledge of God which is eternal life. That and nothing less than that is religion. Everything else is on the surface, is superfluous save for the needs of men.

God doesn't make mistakes and has made each of us in his own image. God is simply love. There should be no fear in love.

To be filled with God is a great thing, to be filled with the fullness of God is still greater; to be filled with all the fullness of God is greatest of all.