“May it please His Majesty that the extraordinary generosity He has shown this miserable sinner serve to encourage and rouse those who read this to abandon completely everything for God. If His Majesty repays so fully that even in this life the reward and gain possessed by those who serve Him is clearly seen, what will this reward be in the the next life?”
Teresa of Avila in The Book of Her Life (Indianapolis: Hackett, 2008) 138.