Tuesday, August 7th
Oh, what a good friend You make, my Lord! How You proceed by favoring and enduring. You wait for others to adapt to Your nature, and in the meanwhile You put up with theirs! – St. Teresa of Avila
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Monday, August 6th
We must sweeten our minds by charitable thoughts. After that, the practice of patience will become almost natural. – St. Therese
Sunday, August 5th
Faith is obscure knowledge; it thus leads us to knowledge of something, but this something we do not get to see. This is the reason why it must also be said that the end we attain by way of faith is also itself a night: God, even in ecstatic union,…
Saturday, August 4th
It is clear, then, that for the soul to come to unite itself perfectly with God through love and will, it must first be free from all desire of the will, howsoever slight. That is, that it must not intentionally and knowingly consent with the will to imperfections, and it…
Friday, August 3rd
There is no reason to marvel at God’s granting such sublime and strange gifts to souls he determines to favor. If we consider that He is God and that He bestows them as God, with infinite love and goodness, it does not seem unreasonable. – St. John of the Cross
Thursday, August 2nd
I have no other means of proving my love for you other than that of strewing flowers, that is, not allowing one little sacrifice to escape, not one look, one word, profiting by all the smallest things and doing them through love. – St. Therese
Wednesday, August 1st
Who are we to be so astonished and chagrined by our weaknesses and even by our faults? The saints humbled themselves because of theirs and rose promptly without being discouraged. – Teresa of St. Augustine
Tuesday, July 31st
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
Monday, July 30th
The bread of life that we need each day to augment eternal life in us renders our will a docile instrument of the divine will, establishes in us the kingdom of God, and purifies our lips and heart to glorify His holy name. – St. Teresa Benedicta (Edith Stein)
Sunday, July 29th
How good Jesus is to give me His cross; thus can I show Him my love, and live in unending Communion with Him. – St. Teresa of the Andes