I understand very well why St. Peter fell. Poor Peter, he was relying upon himself instead of relying only upon God’s strength…Before Peter fell, Our Lord said to him: ‘And once you are converted, strengthen your brethren.’ This means: Convince them of the weakness of human strength through your own…
Love consumes us only in the measure of our self-surrender. – St. Therese
If you put yourself completely into the hands of the Lord, you can trust that you are being guided safely. What you surrender to Him is never lost; it is preserved, purified, and elevated and balanced to the correct proportions. -St. Teresa Benedicta (Edith Stein)
The Lord’s will fills my heart to the brim, and if anything else is added it cannot penetrate to any depth, but like oil on the surface of water it glides easily across. -St. Therese
In savoring a finite joy the very most one can expect is to enfeeble and destroy our taste, leaving the palate wrecked; for all the sweetness there may be I’ll never throw away my soul… – St. John of the Cross Poem For All the Beauty there May Be
I assure you that God is much better than you believe. He is content with a glance, a sigh of love. As for me, I find perfection very easy to practice because I have understood it as a matter of taking Jesus by His Heart. – St. Therese
The most potent and acceptable prayer is the prayer that leaves the best effects. I don’t mean it must immediately fill the soul with desire . . . The best effects are those that are followed up by actions…when the soul not only desires the honor of God, but really…
There is a joy to be found in suffering when one thinks of eternal happiness. – Bl. Mary of Jesus Crucified
It is He alone who wants to work in you, even though you will have done nothing to attract this grace except that which a creature can do: works of sin and misery … He loves you like that. He loves you “more than these,” He will do everything in…
Love produces such likeness in this transformation of lovers that one can say each is the other and both are one. The reason is, that in the union and transformation of love, each gives possession of self to the other, and each leaves and exchanges self for the other. Thus…