Monday, November 17th
Learn, for the Creator’s sake, to overcome yourself in all things; and then you will be able to attain to the knowledge of God. -St. Therese

Learn, for the Creator’s sake, to overcome yourself in all things; and then you will be able to attain to the knowledge of God. -St. Therese
We are His, sisters, let Him do what He will with us, and lead us where He will. If we are really humble and annihilate ourselves, not only in our imagination (which often deceives us), but if we truly detach ourselves from all things, our Lord will not only grant…
For the spiritual and the sensual desires are put to sleep and mortified, so that they can experience nothing, either Divine or human; the affections of the soul are oppressed and constrained, so that they can neither move nor find support in anything; the imagination is bound and can make…
Sometimes He calls souls by means of sickness or troubles, or by some truth He teaches them during prayer, for tepid as they may be in seeking Him, yet God holds them very dear. -St. Teresa of Avila
When the evening of life comes, I shall stand before You with empty hands, because I do not ask You, my God, to take account of my works. All our good deeds are blemished in Your eyes. I wish therefore to be robed with Your own justice, and to receive…
Whoever lives in the presence of so good a friend and excellent leader, who went ahead of us to be the first to suffer, can endure all things. The Lord helps us, strengthens us, and never fails. -St. Teresa of Avila
Hence, don’t pay any attention to the fears they raise or to the picture of the dangers they paint for you…Should anyone tell you that prayer is dangerous, consider him the real danger and run from him. Don’t forget this counsel, for perhaps you will need it. There will be…
It is good to serve God in darkness and trial! We have only this life to live by faith. -St. Therese
For these are souls who, instead of committing themselves to God and making use of His help, rather hinder God by the indiscretion of their actions or by their resistance; like children who, when their mothers desire to carry them in their arms, start stamping and crying, and insist upon…
Unlike our friends in the world, He will never abandon us when we are troubled or distressed. Blessed is the one who truly loves Him and always keeps Him near. – St. Teresa of Avila