There are others who are vexed with themselves when they observe their own imperfectness, and display an impatience that is not humility; so impatient are they about this that they would fain be saints in a day. -St. John of the Cross
The remembrance of my faults humbles me and makes me afraid to rely on my own strength, which is nothing but weakness. -St. Therese
Have an intimate desire that His Majesty grant you what he knows you lack for his honor. – St. John of the Cross
I know that my heart is too weak to be an apostle, but Jesus, do lend me You Heart. -St.Therese
There is a Being who is Love and who desires to have us live with Him. Oh! It is delightful! He is there, keeping me company, helping me to suffer, making me rise above my suffering to rest in Him. Do as I do, and you will see how everything…
Isn’t love shown in sacrifice? When I think about Jesus’ love, then everything I can offer him seems to me so little. -St. Teresa of the Andes
…He brought about the reconciliation and union of the human race with God through grace. The Lord achieved this…at the moment in which he was most annihilated… The journey, then, does not consist in consolations, delights, and spiritual feelings, but in the living death of the cross, sensory and spiritual,…
What God communicates to the soul in this intimate union is totally beyond words. One can say nothing about it just as one can say nothing about God Himself that resembles Him. -St.John of the Cross
Love attracts love, mine rushes forth unto You, it would fain fill up the abyss which attracts it; but alas! It is not even as one drop of dew lost in the Ocean, to love You as You love me I must borrow Your very Love – then only, can…
Especially persons of prayer should always be attached to St. Joseph… Those who cannot find a master to teach them prayer should take this glorious saint for their master, and they will not go astray. – St. Teresa of Jesus