O illustrious people! Open your eyes for the love of God; behold that the true knights of Jesus Christ and the princes of His Church, a St. Peter and a St. Paul, did not follow the road you follow. Do you think perhaps there will be a new road for…
Devotion to the presence of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament was, and still is, for me a source of patience, perseverance, refuge and consolation; literally, the very spring of my life. Without this mystery of our Savior’s love, which he has left for us in the Church, I would have…
We are like so many foolish peasant lads: we think we know something of Thee, yet it must be comparatively nothing, for there are profound secrets even in ourselves of which we know naught. -St. Teresa of Avila
Our knowledge is piecemeal. When our will and action build on it alone, they cannot achieve a perfect structure. Nor can that knowledge, because it does not have complete power over the self and often collapses before reaching the goal. And so this inner shaping power that is in bondage…
Finally, misguided joy in their own works “makes them incapable of taking counsel and of receiving reasonable instructions” about what they ought to do. “Such souls become very slack in charity toward God and neighbor for the self-love contained in their works makes them grow cold in charity.” – St.…
There You will show me What my soul has been seeking, And then You will give me, You, my Life, will give me there What You gave me on that other day: The breathing of the air, The song of the sweet nightingale, The grove and its living beauty In…
What does it matter if I fall at every moment! In that way I realize my weakness, and the gain is considerable. My God, You see how little I am good for, away from Your divine arms; and if You leave me alone, well, it is because it pleases You…
The highest perfection obviously does not consist in interior delights or in great raptures or in visions or in the spirit of prophecy but in having our will so much in conformity with God’s will that there is nothing we know He wills that we do not want with all…
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)
Since He is always with me, prayer, the heart to heart exchange, should never end…I think that we must be so simple with God! -St. Elizabeth of the Trinity