Saturday, January 11th
When you are suffering or when you are feeling lonely…then take comfort in the fact that Jesus is with you and sees you suffering. -St. Teresa of the Andes
When you are suffering or when you are feeling lonely…then take comfort in the fact that Jesus is with you and sees you suffering. -St. Teresa of the Andes
…Though one must indeed be pure before appearing in the sight of the All-Holy God, still I know that He is infinitely just, and the very justice which terrifies so many souls is the source of all my confidence and joy. Justice is not only stern severity towards the guilty;…
If you are nothing, do you forget that Jesus is everything? You have only to lose your nothingness in His infinity and think only of loving Him. – St. Therese
Those who work for God with purest love not only care nothing about whether others see their works, but do not even seek that God himself know of them. Such persons would not cease to render God the same services, with the same joy and purity of love, even if…
God thirsts for the love of His creatures. God Himself is our beggar. Let’s give ourselves to Him. Let’s not be stingy, because God is entirely goodness and generosity towards us. – St. Teresa of the Andes
Through perseverance in its spiritual exercises without consolation or satisfaction, the soul practices the love of God. – St. John of the Cross
Here one can only endeavor to live with ever greater fidelity and purity the life that one has chosen in order to offer it as an acceptable sacrifice for all those with whom one is united. – St. Teresa Benedicta (Edith Stein)
Are you perhaps afraid that the abyss of the greatness of God and that of your nothingness cannot be united? There is love in him. His passionate love made him take flesh in order that by seeing a Man-God, we would not be afraid to draw near him. – St.…
I am content, nay, full of joy, to be without all consolation. I should be ashamed if my love were like that of earthly brides who are ever looking for gifts from their bridegrooms, or seeking to catch the smile which fills them with delight. Therese, the little Spouse of…
The insight of the most skilled doctors can’t compare to that of a mother’s heart. – St. Therese