Teresa of Avila Quotes About Good Works

• While the soul is in mortal sin, nothing can profit it; none of its good works merit an eternal reward, since they do not proceed from God as their first principle, and by Him alone is our virtue real virtue.

  Teresa de Ávila

  Real, Soul, Principles

  St. Teresa of Avila (2014). “The Interior Castle (Annotated Edition)”, p.31, Jazzybee Verlag

• That is how His Majesty [the Lord] rewards our good works---I mean, by predisposing us to perform better ones.

  Teresa de Ávila

  Mean, Saint, Rewards

• My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered them meritorious. As to my evil deeds and my sins, He hid them at once. The eyes of those who saw them, He made even blind; and He has blotted them out of their memory.

  Teresa de Ávila

  Memories, Eye, Evil

  Saint Teresa (of Avila) (1962). “Life of Saint Teresa: Written by Herself”

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