Teresa of Avila Quotes
Union is as if in a room there were two large windows through which the light streamed in; it enters in different places but it all becomes one.
Teresa, of Avila, Saint. The Interior Castle, translated by E. Allison Peers, Sheed & Ward, 1946, Seventh Mansions, ch. 2.
The major purpose of the Black Hand was to create a single empire of ‘Greater Serbia’---a nation uniting all people of Serb extraction throughout Europe and the Balkans. They wanted to combine the lands where ethnic Serbs lived regardless of what other nation the land was a part of.
Adopted in 1776 as the motto for the seal of the United States
This was a poem written in memory of the Irish Rebellion against England in 1916. Most of the leaders were executed.
Teresa of Ávila, born Teresa Sánchez de Cepeda y Ahumada, also called Saint Teresa of Jesus, was a Spanish noblewoman who felt called to convent life in the Catholic Church. A Carmelite nun, prominent Spanish mystic, religious reformer, author, theologian of the contemplative life and of mental prayer, she earned the rare distinction of being declared a Doctor of the Church, but not until over four centuries after her death. Active during the Catholic Reformation, she reformed the Carmelite Orders of both women and men. The movement she initiated was later joined by the younger Spanish Carmelite friar and mystic John of the Cross. It led eventually to the establishment of the Discalced Carmelites. A formal papal decree adopting the split from the old order was issued in 1580.
