“Ever since the day you were born, My child, I am at your
door desiring your whole heart, but…has it been Mine?
…How many times have you harshly closed the door in My
Face, preferring the world…the vanities…the
occupations…worldly creatures…even Satan disguised?
Look back and tell Me, if you can, that it has not been so.”

“How could I, a poor sinner, who have so often offended
You, dare to approach You, O Lord, if I beheld You in all
your majesty? Under the appearance of bread, however, it is
easy to approach You, for if a king disguises himself, it seems
as if we do not have to talk to him with so much
circumspection and ceremony. If you were not hidden, O Lord, who would dare to approach You with such coldness, so unworthily, and with so many imperfections?”

(The Way of Perfection – Saint Teresa of Avila)