Humility must always be doing its work like a bee making honey in the hive: without humility all will be lost.
Teresa of AvilaVocal prayer . . . must be accompanied by reflection. A prayer in which a person is not aware of Whom he is speaking to, what he is asking, who it is who is asking and of Whom, I don't call prayer-however much the lips may move.
Teresa of AvilaThe same know contentment, for beauty is their lover, and beauty is never absent from this world.
Teresa of Avila