Saint Teresa of Avila
The Gift of Understanding...gives us a penetrating insight into the truth s of faith and at the same time a realistic view of our own weakness.. It communicates the experience of our nothingness and our incapacity to do anything good by ourselves... The Gift of Understanding, whether it comes through terrible suffering or develops gradually through a life of prayer, makes us aware that we are capable of any evil and that only God is our strength. Only God can protect us from the evil we might do if we were placed in circumstances of enormous tragedy and suffering. In this sharp light there can be no elation or pride in one's own gifts. There is no appropriation one's own talents... All of this is burned away... as we realize ever more profoundly that we owe infinitely more to God and to others than we can ever give back. Humility is the right relationship to God. It is the same total dependence on God and invincible hope in God's infinite mercy.
Blessed are the pure in heart: for they will see God. Matthew 5:8
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