Thanks to Vikki K Black for this beautiful quotation:
The soul that truly loves God loves all good, seeks all good, protects all good, praises all good, joins itself to good people, helps and defends them, and embraces all the virtues: it only loves what is true and worth loving.
Do you think it possible that one who truly loves God cares, or can care, for vanities, or riches, or worldly things, or pleasures or honours? Neither can such a soul quarrel or feel envy, for it aims at nothing save pleasing the Beloved. It dies with longing for his love and gives its life in striving how to please him better.
Teresa of Avila, quoted in The Joy of the Saints: Spiritual Readings throughout the Year, edited by Robert Llewelyn (Templegate, 1988).
2 comments:
Thank you. Makes me wonder HOW much I truly love God. . . .
Congratulation to blog owner...you have done a very wonderfull work. I like people who can use any oppotunity that they come acoss for God's sake. The true love towards god is what matters than what we reveieve e.g wealth and etc. Your qoutations has encouraged me to search my heart if I truly love God or what!!!? God bless you!
Kindly regards
MR MALULEKE
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