It is not pride to have great desires. It is the devil who makes us think that the lives and actions of saints are to be admired but not imitated. If we do not limit our spiritual goals, we can with great confidence, little by little, reach those heights that by the grace of God many saints have reached. If they had never resolved to desire, and had never, little by little, acted upon that resolve, they would never have ascended so high.
– Theresa of Avila