Thursday, May 23rd
In what can we not humble ourselves after a God who has so humbled Himself for us? – St. Teresa Margaret Redi
In what can we not humble ourselves after a God who has so humbled Himself for us? – St. Teresa Margaret Redi
We may be tempted to give up everything. However, we can repair everything and even gain in grace through an act of love, though it be unaccompanied by any sensible feeling. Jesus smiles. – St. Therese
Let’s concern ourselves with our neighbor and with serving him, even though it may be repugnant to do so. In this way we’ll make sure that the throne of our heart is occupied by God our creator. – St. Teresa of the Andes
Today I had the joy of offering Jesus several sacrifices with respect to my dominant fault, but how much they cost me! There I recognized my weakness. When I am unjustly reproved, I feel as though the blood were boiling in my veins. My whole being rises in revolt! ……
Do not allow yourself to be upset by superficial noise, go and find God in the depth of your soul; He is there. – Ven. Fr. Marie-Eugene
I consider myself as the most wretched of men, full of sores and corruption, and who has committed all sorts of crimes against his King; touched with a sensible regret I confess to Him all my wickedness, I ask His forgiveness, I abandon myself in His hands, that He may…
In contemplation God teaches the soul very quietly and secretly, without its knowing how, without the sound of words, and without the help of any bodily or spiritual faculty, in silence and quietude, in darkness to all sensory and natural things. – St. John of the Cross
Believe me – to write books of piety, to compose sublime poems, all this is not worth as much as the smallest act of renunciation. – St. Teresa of Avila
Secrecy of conscience is considerably harmed and damaged as often as a person manifest its fruit to men, for then he receives as his reward the fruit of fleeting fame. – St. John of the Cross
Oh, ask Him that I may be equal to my vocation and not abuse the graces He lavishes on me; if you knew how fearful that makes me sometimes…Then I cast myself on Him whom Saint John calls ‘the Faithful and True,’ and I beg Him to be Himself my…