Monday, February 3rd
In heaven we will be surprised to see how different His judgment is from what we can understand here below. May He be praised forever. – St. Teresa of Avila
In heaven we will be surprised to see how different His judgment is from what we can understand here below. May He be praised forever. – St. Teresa of Avila
When you are burdened you are close to God, your strength, who abides with the afflicted. When you are relieved of the burden you are close to yourself, your own weakness; for virtue and strength of soul grow and are confirmed in the trials of patience. – St. John of…
Will we ever understand how much we are loved? -St. Elizabeth of the Trinity
Beg our Lord to grant you perfect love of neighbor and leave the rest to Him. -St. Teresa of Avila
We must have no confidence whatever our own strength, but trust in His mercy and until we do this all is weakness. – St. Teresa of Avila
Let’s stay very close to Him. Let’s bring Him all our miseries of body and soul, just as the sick once came to Him throughout all Judea. -St. Elizabeth of the Trinity
The more God gives the more He makes us desire, until we are empty and He is able to fill us with good things. -St. John of the Cross
Let us avoid all display; let us love our lowliness; let us be affected by nothing. Then we shall be poor in spirit and Jesus will come to seek us. -St. Therese
The more this kind of love grows the more our love of God grows with it; and the deeper our love for Him the more we shall love our neighbor for the principle of both is the same. -St. John of the Cross
Oh, then, spiritual soul, when you see your appetites darkened, your inclinations dry and constrained, your faculties incapacitated for any interior exercise, do not be afflicted; think of this as a grace, since God is freeing you from yourself and taking from you your own activity. -St. John of the…