
“Let nothing disturb you. Let nothing frighten you. Everything passes away except God.”
"Poem IX", in Complete Works St. Teresa of Avila (1963) edited by E. Allison Peers, Vol. 3, p. 288
Context: Let nothing disturb thee;
Let nothing dismay thee:
All things pass;
God never changes.
Patience attains
All that it strives for.
He who has God
Finds he lacks nothing:
God alone suffices.
“Let nothing disturb you. Let nothing frighten you. Everything passes away except God.”
De visione Dei (On The Vision of God) (1453)
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 609.
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 283.
“Hail nothing full of nothing, nothing is with thee.”
Source: The Temple (1633), The Elixir, Lines 1-4