What misery to live in this world! We are like men whose enemies are at the door, who must not lay aside their arms, even while sleeping or eating, and are always in dread lest the foe should enter the fortress by some breach in the walls. O my Lord and my all! How canst thou wish us to prize such a wretched existence?


The Interior Castle (1577)

Teresa of Ávila Quotes

What misery to live in this world! We are like men whose enemies are at the door, who must not lay aside their arms, even while sleeping or eating,...

What misery to live in this world! We are like men whose enemies are at the door, who must not lay aside their arms, even while sleeping or eating,...

What misery to live in this world! We are like men whose enemies are at the door, who must not lay aside their arms, even while sleeping or eating,...

What misery to live in this world! We are like men whose enemies are at the door, who must not lay aside their arms, even while sleeping or eating,...