Teresa of Avila Quotes About Slaves

• Do you know when people really become spiritual? It is when they become the slaves of God and are branded with His sign, which is the sign of the Cross, in token that they have given Him their freedom.

  Teresa de Ávila

  Spiritual, People, Slave

  Teresa of Avila (2013). “The Interior Castle”, p.269, Lulu.com

• Anyone who has the habit of speaking before God's majesty as if he were speaking to a slave, careless about how he is speaking, and saying whatever comes into his head and whatever he's learned from saying prayers at other times, in my opinion is not praying. Please, God, may no Christian pray in this way.

  Teresa de Ávila

  Christian, Prayer, Saint

• My father was a man of great charity towards the poor, and compassion for the sick, and also for servants; so much so, that he never could be persuaded to keep slaves, for he pitied them so much: and a slave belonging to one of his brothers being once in his house, was treated by him with as much tenderness as his own children.

  Teresa de Ávila

  Hermano, Hijos, Padre

  Saint Teresa of Avila, Aeterna Press (1951). “The life of Saint Teresa of Jesus”, p.41, Aeterna Press

• The custom of speaking to God Almighty as freely as with a slave - caring nothing whether the words are suitable or not, but simply saying the first thing that comes to mind from being learnt by rote by frequent repetition - cannot be called prayer: God grant that no Christian may address Him in this manner.

  Teresa de Ávila

  Christian, Prayer, Caring

  Saint Teresa (of Avila) (1995). “The Interior Castle”, Harpercollins

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