Our Lord wishes that we mortify ourselves, for that is good, and it is well that we love it. He has first suffered for us and all those who would have to labor at His work. We must be His imitators in little things as in great ones… – Bl.…
God repays trials very well with divine goods for soul and body – there is not a trial which does not have a corresponding and considerable reward. -St. John of the Cross
If it’s true, Lord, that You want to endure everything for me, what is this that I suffer for You? Of what am I complaining? I am already ashamed, since I have seen You in such a condition. I desire to suffer, Lord, all the trials that come tome and…
And so in spite of this trial which robs me of all sense of enjoyment, I can still say: ‘ You have given me O Lord, a delight in Your doings.’ Ps. 91: 5. For is there a greater joy than to suffer for Your love, O my God? The…
I can boast only of His mercy, and since I cannot cease being what I have been, I have no other remedy than to approach His mercy and to trust in the merits of His Son and of the Virgin, His Mother. – St. Teresa of Avila
Why fear to offer yourself as a victim to God’s Merciful Love? If it were to His Divine Justice you might have reason to fear, but the Merciful Love will have pity on your weakness and will treat you with tenderest mercy. – St. Therese
Just as Jesus in the extreme abandonment at His death surrendered Himself into the hands of the invisible and incomprehensible God, so will the soul yield herself to the midnight darkness of faith which is the only way to the incomprehensible God. -St. Teresa Benedicta (Edith Stein)
I desire neither death nor life. Were Our Lord to offer me my choice, I would not choose. I only will what He wills, and I am pleased with whatever He does. I have no fear of the last struggle, or of any pain, however great, which my illness may…
Souls have much the same struggles to fight. – St. Therese
He has forgotten your infidelities long ago. Only your desires for perfection remain to make His heart rejoice. … For those who love Him, and after each fault come to ask pardon by throwing themselves into His arms, Jesus trembles with joy. – St. Therese