Open wide the doors

"But if the Holy Spirit is an impulse of love that comes into us to sanctify us and bring us to God, why do we not all become saints? The mystery of human responsibility enters here...Although He is eager to enter our souls and to possess it, He will not act thus unless we give Him free access..."God does not force anyone, He takes what we give Him; but He does not give Himself wholly to us, until we give ourselves wholly to Him." (St Teresa in Way of Perfection, ch 28) If we do not become saints, it is not because the Holy Spirit does not will it -- He was sent to us and comes to us for this very purpose -- but it is because we do not give full liberty to His action. This is the point in which we fail: we do not use our liberty to wholly yield our soul to His powerful, loving invasion. If our will would open the doors wide, the Holy Spirit would take us under His direction, and, with His help, we would become saints." from Divine Intimacy, #188 (p.563)