Tuesday, March 6th
While one is alive, progress doesn’t come from trying to enjoy Me more but trying to do My will. – The Lord to St. Teresa of Avila
While one is alive, progress doesn’t come from trying to enjoy Me more but trying to do My will. – The Lord to St. Teresa of Avila
Only in union with the divine Head does human suffering take on expiatory power. To suffer and to be happy although suffering, to have one’s feet on the earth, to walk on the dirty and rough paths of this earth and yet to be enthroned with Christ at the Father’s…
Behold, these are not the times to believe everyone; believe only those who you see are walking in conformity with Christ’s life…Believe firmly what Holy Mother Church holds, and you can be sure you will be walking along a good path. -St. Teresa of Avila
Humility does not disturb or disquiet or agitate, however great it may be; it comes with peace, delight, and calm. . . . The pain of genuine humility doesn’t agitate or afflict the soul; rather, this humility expands it and enables it to serve God more. – St. Teresa of…
Since, O my God, You inspire me to make myself like You in everything, as much as I can, I want particularly to imitate You in those virtues that are so pleasing to Your most loving Heart, namely: humility, meekness, and obedience. – St. Teresa Margaret Redi
Nothing so pleases Him as to see those souls developing and nothing can raise them so high as to become, in some way, equal with God. That is why He asks of the soul the tribute of its love, since it is the property of love to equalize, as far…
What does it profit you to give God one thing if he asks of you another? Consider what it is God wants, and then do it. You will as a result satisfy your heart better than with something toward which you yourself are inclined. – St. John of the Cross
On the road to union with God the night of faith shall guide me. -St. John of the Cross
We must serve our Lord; sow what is good around us without worrying about its growth. For us the labors; for Jesus, success! – St. Therese
Show us, then, O our good Master, some way in which we may live through this most dangerous warfare without frequent surprise. The best way that we can do this, daughters, is to use the love and fear given us by His Majesty. For love will make us quicken our…