Now, Lord, you have shown my soul your design of love. You still want to detach me, purify me, shape me. You want to transform me! Here I am, here I am, my Love! I am yours, your victim. I am in your hands, in your Heart! Prepare me for…
In joys and successes, turn to God with fear and sincerity. You will escape all snares and be free of everything false. -St. John of the Cross
My God, I believe You are really present in my heart and see all that passes and will pass within me and in all creatures. What can I fear when I am with You? Do with me as You please, for I wish nothing but Yourself and to be all…
Helping Christ carry his cross fills one with a strong and pure joy, and those who may and can do so, the builders of God’s kingdom, are the most authentic children of God. -St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross
Today while beseeching our Lord to speak for me because I wasn’t able to think of anything to say nor did I know how to begin to carry out this obedience, there came to my mind what I shall now speak about, that which will provide us with a basis…
It’s a great grace to receive the sacraments, but when God doesn’t allow it, it’s good just the same; everything is a GRACE. -St. Therese
…many remain at the foot of the mount who could ascend to the top. I repeat and ask that you always have courageous thoughts. As a result of them the Lord will give you grace for courageous deeds. -St. Teresa of Avila
I desire to suffer always and not to die. I should add: this is not my will, it is my inclination. It is sweet to think of Jesus; but it is sweeter to do His will. -Bl Mary of Jesus Crucified
The most delightful Mystery of Love! He allows Himself to be found by the heart that searches for Him, by the soul that knows how to do without many things for love of Him. -Bl. Mary Candid of the Eucharist
I see God in the work of his hands and the marks of his love in every visible thing, and it sometimes happens that I am seized by a supreme joy which is above all other joys. -St. Titus Brandsma