Are you so in need, my Lord and my Love, that You would want to receive such poor company as mine, for I see by Your expression that You have been consoled by me? If it’s true, Lord that You want to want to endure everything for me, what is…
My God, no one has sinned as I. And therefore do I rejoice and hope much, for the extent of Your mercy will be all the more clearly seen in me. -St. Mary of Jesus Crucified
The divine light is here very appropriately called the approaches of Dawn, that is, twilight. For as the twilight of the morn disperses the light of day, so the mind, tranquil and reposing in God, is raised up from the darkness of natural knowledge to the morning light of the…
…the preparation of the soul for this union, as we said, is not that it should understand or perceive or feel or imagine anything, concerning either God or aught else, but that it should have purity and love — that is, perfect resignation and detachment from everything for God’s sake…
His Majesty gives strength to the one He sees has need of it. – St. Teresa of Avila
Now be on your guard, daughters, against some types of humility given by the devil in which great disquiet is felt about the gravity of our sins. This disturbance can afflict in many ways even to the point of making one give up receiving Communion and practicing private prayer. These…
Jesus bears our imperfections patiently; He does not like teaching us everything at once, but normally enlightens us a little at a time. – St. Therese
In heaven, the most beautiful souls are those that have sinned the most and repented. But they made use of their miseries like manure around the base of a tree. -St. Mary of Jesus Crucified
That man would be very ignorant who thinks that because sweetness and delight are failing him, God is failing him, or should think that in having these he is having God. -St. John of the Cross
I thirst, I thirst for Jesus alone! Happy the souls who suffer in secret, known to God alone! How I love a soul suffering with patience, hidden with God alone! Once you have given God something, you must never take it back. – St. Mary of Jesus Crucified