Saturday, October 8th
The soul ought to consider aridity and darkness as fortunate omens; as signs that God is beside it, freeing it from itself, taking the initiative out of its hand. – St. Teresa Benedicta (Edith Stein)
Author: nickname
Friday, October 7th
The soul, because its searching for the Beloved is real and its love great, will not leave undone anything it can do itself. The soul that really loves God is not easygoing in its efforts to find the Son of God, the Beloved. Even when it has done all it…
Thursday, October 6th
During mental prayer…remain before God like a poor, mute paralytic at the door of a rich man. – Brother Lawrence
Wednesday, October 5th
We should never fear the battle when the good of our neighbor is involved. – St. Therese
Tuesday, October 4th
Great deeds are forbidden me. I cannot preach the Gospel nor shed by blood-but what does it matter? My brothers toil instead of me and I, a little child, keep close by the throne of God and I love for those who fight. -St. Therese
Monday, October 3rd
The insight of the most skilled doctors can’t compare to that of a mother’s heart. – St. Therese
Sunday, October 2nd
Good works wrought in the season of spiritual dryness and hardness are like the freshness of the winter morning. What we then do for God in dryness of spirit is most precious in His eyes. It is then that we acquire abundant virtues and graces, and what we achieve with…
Saturday, October 1st
Our suffering never makes Him happy. He sends it to us and, as it were, turns His head while so doing, but suffering is a thing that is necessary for us. -St. Therese
Friday, September 30th
No one can make me frightened anymore, because I know what to believe about His mercy and His love; I know that, in the twinkling of an eye, all those thousands of sins would be consumed as a drop of water cast into a blazing fire. -St. Therese
Thursday, September 29th
Let us live on the Cross. The Cross is the denial of our will. Heaven is on the Cross because Jesus is there. -St. Teresa of the Andes