The Burning Faith of the Human Heart

"St. Teresa once explained herself as a woman so deeply in love that there was not a moment when she was not occupied with her beloved, be it thinking of him, speaking to him, working for him, talking or writing about him. Perhaps her greatest gift to the Church is not what she did or the particular things she wrote but simply the witness of a woman for whom God was an over-riding passion.

"And this reveals to us that God is such that he can be loved like that: that he is real, living, personal; that Jesus can become the beloved of a human heart. Is there any greater incentive to faith than contact with someone of burning faith: any greater support in darkness than the shining certitude of one who really knows him?"

- Ruth Burrows, Foreward to Daily Readings with St. Teresa of Avila