When we have a friend in our home, we don’t leave him alone; but from time to time, even when we are busy, we try to go to him to speak to him. Do the same with Jesus. In the beginning it will be hard to recollect yourself, but afterwards…
…we render God the most true and acceptable service by caring only for His honor and glory and forgetting ourselves, our advantages, comfort and happiness. How can we be self-oblivious, while keeping ourselves under such strict control that we are afraid to move, or even to think, or to leave…
Love suffers neither delay nor repose, being always eager to suffer for the Beloved. – St. Teresa Margaret Redi
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
The entire trinity rests within us, this whole mystery that will be our vision in Heaven. -St. Elizabeth of the Trinity
A soul united to Jesus and identified with him can do everything. It seems to me that this can be reached only by prayer. – St. Teresa de los Andes
We should never fear the battle when the good of our neighbor is involved. – St. Therese
Now let us talk about the detachment we ought to have, for detachment, if it is practiced with perfection, includes everything. I say it includes everything because if we embrace the Creator and care not at all for the whole of creation, His Majesty will infuse the virtues. Doing little…
Perfection does not lie in the virtues that the soul knows it has, but in the virtues that our Lord sees in it. This is a closed book; hence one has no reason for presumption, but must remain prostrate on the ground with respect to self. – St. John of…
True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction, the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes. – St. Therese