St
Teresa of Avila - With the Lord as Friend
With
so good a Friend and Captain ever present, Himself the first to suffer,
everything can be borne.
He
helps, He strengthens, He never fails, He is the true Friend.
I
see clearly, and since then have always seen, that if we are to please God, and
if He is to give us His great graces, everything must pass through the hands of
His most sacred humanity, in whom His Majesty said that He is well pleased.
I
know this by repeated experience: I have seen clearly that this is the door by
which we are to enter, if we would have His supreme Majesty reveal to us His
great secrets.
