Christian Quote of the Day — Teresa of Avila | October 16, 2026

These words come from the famous prayer traditionally associated with a bookmark used by Teresa of Avila.

They offer a simple but challenging reminder about patience and trust.

Patience is often misunderstood as doing nothing.

Christian patience is something different.

It is the willingness to remain faithful while we wait.

It is continuing to trust God when an answer has not yet arrived.

It is remembering that circumstances may change while God does not.

Teresa’s final words bring the whole thought into focus:

“God alone suffices.”

That does not mean we stop caring about the needs, responsibilities, and relationships in our lives.

It means that beneath all of them is something more permanent.

God remains.

When circumstances are uncertain, he remains.

When answers take longer than we hoped, he remains.

When we cannot yet see what comes next, he remains.

Patience becomes easier to understand when it is rooted not simply in waiting, but in trusting the One for whom we wait.