It is impossible for human tongue to exaggerate the riches which a vision from God brings to the soul: it even bestows health and refreshment on the body.
Teresa of AvilaThe same know contentment, for beauty is their lover, and beauty is never absent from this world.
Teresa of AvilaWhen the soul, through its own fault... becomes rooted in a pool of pitch-black, evil smelling water, it produces nothing but misery and filth.
Teresa of AvilaI am really much more afraid of those people who have so great a fear of the devil, than I am of the devil himself.
Teresa of Avila