If a man puts anything in his line of vision, however small, it is enough to obstruct his sight and prevent him from seeing other things in front of him; just so any small desire or idle act in the soul is sufficient to obstruct its vision of great and…
Believe, daughter, that My Father gives greater trials to anyone whom He loves more; and love responds to these. How can I show you greater love than by desiring for you what I have desired for Myself? Behold these wounds, for your sufferings have never reached this point. Suffering is…
My way is all trust and love. I don’t understand those who fear so tender a Friend. – St. Therese
Let us nourish a filial fear of offending God, the same kind of fear that a child has for its father it fears to displease, not because of punishment but because he knows that his father loves him and endures him. -St. Teresa de los Andes
The cataracts of heaven are always open to send down grace, but we do not have the mouth of our desire open to receive it. -St. Mary Magdalene de Pazzi
Bear in mind that your flesh is weak and that no worldly thing can comfort or strengthen your spirit, for what is born of the world is world and what is born of the flesh is flesh. The good spirit is born only of the Spirit of God, who communicates…
What hope can we have of finding rest outside ourselves if we cannot be at rest within…well, believe me, if we don’t obtain and have peace in our own house we’ll not find it outside. Let this war be ended. – St. Teresa of Avila
We are fonder of consolation than we are of the cross. Test us, Lord — for You know the truth — so that we may know ourselves. – St. Teresa of Avila
Like the blind, they must lean on dark faith, accept it for their guide and light, and rest on nothing of what they understand, taste, feel, or imagine. – St. John of the Cross
If in periods of physical depression and spiritual discouragement it is difficult for us to gather our energies to lift ourselves up, let us rest in the Lord and not grieve over it. – Bl. M. Josephine of Jesus Crucified