St Teresa of Avila

Saint Teresa of Avila St Teresa of Avila

APPRECIATION AND INTRODUCTION 5 SOME SELECTED PASSAGES 59 TERESA ON HERSELF 60 ON THE GODHEAD 67 ON THE SOUL 69 ON GOD IN THE SOUL 72 ON THE LOVE OF GOD 77 ON THE LOVE OF OUR NEIGHBOUR 81 ON OUR SINFULNESS 83 ON THE WORLD 85 ON EVIL-SPEAKING 87 ON SELF-EXCUSING 89 ON PRAISE, PRECEDENCY, AND POINTS OF HONOUR 92 ON HUMILITY 95 ON SORROW FOR SIN 98 ON LEARNING AND INTELLECT 100 ON PRAYER 105 APPRECIATION AND INTRODUCTION With a view to the work of my classes this session, I took old Abraham Woodhead's two black-letter quartos with me to the Engadine last July. And I spent every rainy morning and every tired evening of that memorable holiday month in the society of Santa Teresa and her excellent old-English translator. Till, ever, as I crossed the Morteratch and the Roseg, and climbed the hills around Maloggia and Pontresina, a voice would come after me, saying to me, Why should you not share all this spiritual profit and intellectual delight with your Sabbath evening congregations, and with your young men's and young women's classes? Why should you not introduce Santa Teresa to her daughters in Edinburgh? For her daughters they are, so soon and as long as they live in self-knowledge and in self-denial, in humility and in meekness, and especially in unceasing prayer for themselves and for others. And I am not without some assurance that in this present lecture I am both hearing and obeying one of those same locutions that Teresa heard so frequently, and obeyed with such instancy and fidelity and fruitfulness.