Do not think you have gained a virtue unless you have first been tried by its opposite.
Teresa of AvilaPrayer is an act of love; words are not needed. Even if sickness distracts from thoughts, all that is needed is the will to love.
Teresa of AvilaOur souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives.
Teresa of Avila