Friday, October 21st
The soul must forget about understanding, and abandon itself into the arms of love, and His Majesty will teach it what to do next. – St. Teresa of Avila
The soul must forget about understanding, and abandon itself into the arms of love, and His Majesty will teach it what to do next. – St. Teresa of Avila
Preserve a habitual remembrance of eternal life, recalling that those who hold themselves the lowest and poorest and least of all will enjoy the highest dominion and glory in God. – St. John of the Cross
Through this humility acquired by means of self-knowledge, individuals are purged of all those imperfections of the vice of pride into which they fell in the time of their prosperity. Aware of their own dryness and wretchedness, the thought of their being more advanced than others does not even occur…
We look at ourselves too much … we do not have enough trust in Him who enfolds us in His love. We must not stand in front of our cross and examine it in itself, but withdrawing into the light of faith,we must rise above it and consider that it…
I love Him with His own love. It is a double current between He who is and she who is not! – St. Elizabeth of the Trinity
…he does not permit himself in the quietude, but strives after the other more sensory experience. But the more habituated he becomes to this calm, the deeper his experience of the general loving knowledge of God will grow. – St. John of the Cross
His Majesty couldn’t grant us a greater favor than to give us a life that would be an imitation of the life His beloved Son lived. – St. Teresa of Avila
I at least wish to tell Him repeatedly that I love Him. Even if it seemed to me that the fire of love had gone out, I still would want to cast something in it, and I know for sure that Jesus would retrieve it. – St. Therese
Terrible trials are suffered because we don’t understand ourselves, and that which isn’t bad at all but good we think is a serious fault. This lack of knowledge causes the afflictions of many people who engage in prayer; complaints about interior trials, at least to a great extent, by people…
The very pure spirit does not meddle with exterior attachments or human respect, but it communes inwardly with God, alone and in solitude as to all forms, and with delightful tranquility, for the knowledge of God is received in divine silence. -St. John of the Cross