It is clear, then, that for the soul to come to unite itself perfectly with God through love and will, it must first be free from all desire of the will, howsoever slight. That is, that it must not intentionally and knowingly consent with the will to imperfections, and it…
My father was fond of reading good books…These good books together with the care my mother took to have us pray and be devoted to out Lady and to some of the saints began to awaken me. – St. Teresa of Avila
Why should we not seek that Being, the one thing necessary? Let’s love Him and we’ll be happy to the extent that God is the object of our understanding and will. -St. Teresa de los Andes
The power and the tenacity of love is great, for love captures and binds God Himself. – St. John of the Cross
“Look and see if there is a sorrow equal to mine,” we think we are not capable of looking at it. Our soul rebels when it sees You unclothed, beaten and bruised, broken into bits to the extent that there is nothing in Your body that might be called “healthy.”…
The soul in this state must remember that if it is not conscious of making progress, it is making much more than when it was walking on foot, because God Himself is bearing it in His arms. Although outwardly it is doing nothing, it is in reality doing more than…
Never complain of anyone, but turn the complaints against yourself; because if you do not succeed in doing what you long to do, how can you complain if others fail? -St. Teresa Margaret Redi
Even in the world, one can listen to Him in the silence of a heart that only wants to be His. -St. Elizabeth of the Trinity
I don’t know what happens to me when I contemplate Our God exiled in the tabernacles for love of His creatures who forget and offend Him. I’d like to live till the end of the world by suffering together with the Divine Prisoner. -St. Teresa de los Andes
After God places these three last kinds of good in the soul, he no longer remembers her former ugliness and sin, as he declares through Ezekiel [Ez. 18:22], for on account of these goods she is very agreeable to him. And once he has blotted out this sin and ugliness,…