“Do you know the souls that most enjoy my Goodness?,” said our Lord (to a chosen soul). “The ones who trust in me the most. Trusting souls are the ones who steal away my graces. I am all Love, and the greatest pain one can give my Heart is to…
We ought not to get tired of doing little things for the love of God, because He looks at the love rather than at the work. – Brother Lawrence
O my God, fill my soul with holy joy, courage and strength to serve You. Enkindle Your love in me and then walk with me along the next stretch of road before me. I do not see very far ahead, but when I have arrived where the horizon now closes…
I have not known anyone truly devoted to him (St. Joseph) and rendering him special services who has not advanced more in virtue. For in a powerful way he benefits souls who recommend themselves to him. – St. Teresa of Avila
Never mind whether you are all aglow or whether you are downcast; it is the law of our exile to pass thus from one state to the other; believe that He never changes and that in His loving kindness He is ever bending down to you to carry you away…
I understand clearly that through love alone can we become pleasing to God, and my sole ambition is to acquire it. – St. Therese
Believe, daughter, that My Father gives greater trials to anyone whom He loves more; and love responds to these. How can I show you greater love than by desiring for you what I have desired for Myself? Behold these wounds, for your sufferings have never reached this point. Suffering is…
Finally, misguided joy in their own works “makes them incapable of taking counsel and of receiving reasonable instructions” about what they ought to do. “Such souls become very slack in charity toward God and neighbor for the self-love contained in their works makes them grow cold in charity.” – St.…
Our created essence cries out to rejoin its Principle. The Word, the Splendour of the Father, is the eternal prototype on which creatures are designed on the day of their creation. That is why God wills that, having been freed from what is purely of self, we shall stretch out…
Those who walk in the love of God seek neither their own gain nor their reward, but only to lose all things and themselves for God; and this loss they judge to be their gain. -St. John of the Cross