The following passage illustrates how Teresa viewed her relationship with God and the authorship of her writing:People marvel at what I wrote in the treatise and I marvel at what, in fact, I kept quiet, but I do not marvel doubting nor do I insist on my wonder. For my experience makes me sure, and the God of Truth knows that I had no other master nor consulted with any other learned authority nor translated from other books, as some people with malicious wonder are wont to say.
People are amazed by what I wrote in the treatise, but I am amazed at what I kept silent about. I do not doubt or insist on my wonder. My experience confirms it, and God of truth knows that I had no other master nor consulted with any learned authority nor translated from other books, as some maliciously curious people say.