Monday, September 10th
One attains possession of a knowledge of the cross only when one experiences the cross to the very depths. – St. Teresa Benedicta (Edith Stein)
One attains possession of a knowledge of the cross only when one experiences the cross to the very depths. – St. Teresa Benedicta (Edith Stein)
God repays trials very well with divine goods for soul and body – there is not a trial which does not have a corresponding and considerable reward. -St. John of the Cross
If you have to suffer, it means that you are all the more loved. -St. Elizabeth of the Trinity
Is there anything good, beautiful or true that we can think of that would not be in Jesus? -St. Teresa de los Andes
God refuses only the person who does not admit his own weakness; He sends away only the unhappy proud person. You must “hold him” well and strongly, with a poor spirit, with a poor heart, with a life entirely poor…The life of a soul who seeks true happiness clearly and…
A soul united to Jesus and identified with him can do everything. It seems to me that this can be reached only by prayer. – St. Teresa de los Andes
When I accepted the fact that I might spend my life suffering from these troubles and anxieties-which in no way diminished the trust I had in God and served only to increase my faith-I found myself changed all at once. And my soul, until that time always in turmoil, experienced…
Be indifferent in all things; and let it be the same to you to do one thing as to do another, to have one office as to have another. – St. Mary Magdalen de’Pazzi
Oh, would that I could tell everyone what sources of strength, of peace and also of happiness they would find if they consented to live in this intimate union with Him. Only they do not know how to wait. If God does not bestow Himself in a manner they can…
Our Lord’s love is revealed as perfectly in the most simple soul that resists His grace in nothing as in the most excellent soul… -St. Therese