Quotes from Interior Castle — Teresa of Ávila
1515–1582 Spain
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Most of these trials and times of unrest come from the fact that we do not understand ourselves.
Interior Castle (1577)
Just as we cannot stop the movement of the heavens, revolving as they do with such speed, so we cannot restrain our thought.
Interior Castle (1577)
We shall never learn to know ourselves except by endeavoring to know God; for, beholding His greatness we realize our own littleness; His purity shows us our foulness; and by meditating upon His humility we find how very far we are from being humble.
Interior Castle (1577)
It is no small pity, and should cause us no little shame, that, through our own fault, we do not understand ourselves, or know who we are.
Interior Castle (1577)
God gave us faculties for our use; each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us try to charm them to sleep, but permit them to do their work until divinely called to something higher.
Interior Castle (1577)
As to what good qualities there may be in our souls, or who dwells within them, or how precious they are — those are things which seldom consider and so we trouble little about carefully preserving the soul's beauty.
Interior Castle (1577)