From "Way of Perfection" by Teresa of Avila

"I have said this before and I would say it many, many times, for fear seriously constrains people who do not wholly understand God's goodness by personal experience, although they know it by faith. It is truly a wonderful thing to know by experience the friendship and the tenderness with which He treats those who go by this road and to see how he defrays, as it were, all the expenses of the journey....This is the wonderful thing about the journey: one is given more than one ever asks for or even dreams of desiring. This is absolutely certain; I know it to be true. If you should find it untrue, never believe anything else I tell you."