Quote of the day, 26 July: St. Teresa of Avila

Jacob did not become less a saint for tending his flock, nor Abraham, nor St. Joachim. When we try to avoid work, everything tires us. That’s the way it goes for me, and for this reason God wills that I be always loaded down with many things to do.

SAINT TERESA OF AVILA
Letter 172 to her brother Don Lorenzo de Cepeda
2 January 1577

Teresa of Avila, St. 1985, The Collected Works of St. Teresa of Avila, translated from the Spanish by Kavanaugh, K; Rodriguez, O, ICS Publications, Washington DC.