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…
Let us now come to the detachment which we must practice, for if this is carried out perfectly it includes everything else. I say “it includes everything else” because, if we care nothing for any created things, but embrace the Creator alone, His Majesty will infuse the virtues into us…
We can assume that the prospect of the faithful who would follow Him on His way of the cross strengthened the Savior during His night on the Mount of Olives. And the strength of these cross-bearers helps Him after each of His falls. – St. Teresa Benedicta (Edith Stein)
‘You are dead and your life is hidden with Christ in God’ (Col. 3:3). There is the condition: we must be ‘dead’, otherwise we may be hidden in God sometimes, but we do not live habitually in Him; for all our sensitiveness, our self-seeking and such-like, causes us to depart…
The imitation of the virtue in which one sees another excel has a great tendency to spread. This is good advice; don’t forget it. – St. Teresa of Avila
Oh, if you knew how necessary suffering is so God’s work can be done in the soul… – St. Elizabeth of the Trinity
If, while He went about in the world, the sick were healed merely by touching His clothes, how can we doubt that He will work miracles when He is within us, if we have faith, or that He will give us what we ask of Him since He is in…
If we plant a flower or a shrub and water it daily it will grow so tall that in time we shall need a spade and a hoe to uproot it. It is just so, I think, when we commit a fault, however small, each day, and do not cure…
I beg you not to remain any longer at the feet of Jesus but to follow that first impulse that would carry you into His arms. -St. Therese
Silence and solitude are brother and sister who hold hands and gently help each other. – Blessed John of Saint Samson