Let Nothing Disturb You
Nada te turbe
St. Teresa of Ávila kept these lines on a slip of paper in her prayer book, and they were found there after she died in 1582. They set every passing worry beside the one thing that does not pass. Teresa wrote them while founding convents on bad roads with no money, so they are the words of a busy woman, not a sheltered one.
St. Teresa of Ávila, 16th century
Let nothing disturb you,
let nothing frighten you.
All things pass away;
God does not change.
Patience obtains all things.
Whoever has God
lacks nothing:
God alone is enough.