"Govern everything by your wisdom, O Lord, so that my soul
may always be serving you in the way you will and not as I choose. Let me die
to myself so that I may serve you; let me live to you who are life itself."
Attributed to St. Teresa of Ávila but never, so far as I've been able to tell, with a proper citation.
Also, having first tested these scans of the Complete works of Saint Teresa of Jesus, trans. E. Allison Peers, against the copy on my shelf, and found them to be functioning perfectly no matter what I pulled out of the three volumes of the latter at random, I searched for relevant occurrences of Govern, "your wisdom", "my soul" serving, "you will and not", "not as I choose", "die to myself", "live to you", and "life itself", but always came up empty. Though this could have come from the hand of a translator other than Peers, it seems pretty unlikely that none of these short phrases would have been used by both. For a searchable version of the critical edition of the Spanish, go here.
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