Humility must always be doing its work like a bee making honey in the hive: without humility all will be lost.
Teresa of AvilaNo one should think or say anything of another which he would not wish thought or said of himself.
Teresa of AvilaHalf-instructed confessors have done my soul great harm; for I could not always have such learned ones as I would have desired. They certainly did not wish to deceive me, but the fact was that they knew no better. Of something which was a venial sin, they said it was no sin, and out of a very grave mortal sin they made a venial sin. This has done me such harm, that my speaking here of so great an evil, as a warning to others, will be readily understood.
Teresa of Avila