The end cannot be reached without adopting the means, and since Our Lord had made me understand that it was through the cross He would give me souls, the more crosses I encountered the stronger became my attraction to suffering. -St. Therese
It is also an evident truth that sympathy with the neighbor grows the more the soul is united with God through love. – St. Teresa Benedicta (Edith Stein)
God came to redeem us, to unite us to himself, with one another, and to conform our will to his. He knows our nature; he takes it into consideration and therefore he has given us everything which can help us to reach our goal. – St. Teresa Benedicta (Edith Stein)
The remembrance of my faults humbles me and makes me afraid to rely on my own strength, which is nothing but weakness. -St. Therese
Looking at things from God’s viewpoint there is no such thing as chance; my whole life, down to the last detail, is traced in the plan of divine Providence and, to the all seeing eyes of God, constitutes a perfectly intelligible whole. – St. Teresa Benedicta (Edith Stein)
I know that the more rapidly one advances on the way of perfection, the further one considers one’s self from the goal. – St. Therese
We must enter continually more deeply into the Divine Being by means of recollection. ‘I press on’ cried St Paul (Phil. 3:14). Thus, every day we must go down deeper along the path of the abyss that is God, letting ourselves slide down the slope in a confidence that is…
The Lord said to me, don’t be afraid that My mercy will fail you. – St. Teresa of Avila
I have found heaven on earth, since heaven is God, and God is in my soul. My mission in heaven will be to draw souls, helping them to go out of themselves to cling to God, with a spontaneous, love-filled action, and to keep them in that great interior silence…
O true God and my Lord! It is a great consolation for the soul wearied by the loneliness of being separated from You to see that You are everywhere. -St. Teresa of Avila