Do not let your weakness make you unhappy. When, in the morning, we feel no courage or strength for the practice of virtue, it is really a grace: it is the time to ‘lay the ax to the root of the trees,’ (Matt. 3:10) relying upon Jesus alone. If we…
God desires the smallest degree of purity of conscience in you more than all the works you can perform. – St. John of the Cross
What have I to do on heaven and on earth except to please my God and give myself up to Him continually? – Bl. Marie of the Incarnation (Madame Acarie)
The soul is not united with God in this life through understanding, or through enjoyment, or through imagination, or through any other sense; but only faith, hope, and charity (according to the intellect, memory, and will) can unite the soul with God in this life. – St. John of the…
For this reason, the purer, simpler, and more perfect the general knowledge is, the darker it seems to be and the less the intellect perceives. – St. John of the Cross
It seems to me that if our sacrifices take Jesus captive, our joys make Him prisoner too. All that is needed to attain this is that, instead of giving ourselves over to selfish happiness, we offer to our Spouse the little joys He scatters in our path to charm our…
Love suffers neither delay nor repose, being always eager to suffer for the Beloved. – St. Teresa Margaret Redi
Love suffers neither delay nor repose, being always eager to suffer for the Beloved. – St. Teresa Margaret Redi
Let Your divinity shine on my intellect by giving it divine knowledge, and on my will by imparting to it the divine love and on my memory with the divine possession of glory. -St. John of the Cross
O Eternal Father, that You are blessed and glorious in Yourself is no cause for wonder. That all creatures are blessed and glorious through You is no cause for wonder. But that You communicate Yourself to, and take pleasure in, a creature so vile, this is a cause for wonder….…