Best quotes by Saint Teresa of Avila on Soul

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  • Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
    - Saint Teresa of Avila
  • All things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted.
    - Saint Teresa of Avila
  • I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions.
    - Saint Teresa of Avila
  • O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with which to praise the Lord. It utters a thousand pious follies, in a continuous endeavor to please Him who thus possesses it.
    - Saint Teresa of Avila
  • When the soul, through its own fault... becomes rooted in a pool of pitch-black, evil smelling water, it produces nothing but misery and filth.
    - Saint Teresa of Avila
  • A soul which gives itself to prayer, either much or little, should on no account be kept within narrow bounds.
    - Saint Teresa of Avila
  • What friends or kindred can be so close and intimate as the powers of our soul, which, whether we will or no, must ever bear us company?
    - Saint Teresa of Avila