Saturday, May 4th
If we plant a flower or a shrub and water it daily it will grow so tall that in time we shall need a spade and a hoe to uproot it. It is just so, I think, when we commit a fault, however small, each day, and do not cure…
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Friday, May 3rd
I beg you not to remain any longer at the feet of Jesus but to follow that first impulse that would carry you into His arms. -St. Therese
Thursday, May 2nd
Silence and solitude are brother and sister who hold hands and gently help each other. – Blessed John of Saint Samson
Wednesday, May 1st
There is no wood like that of the cross for lighting the fire of love in the soul! And Jesus needs to be loved and to find in the world, where He is so offended, souls that are given, wholly surrendered to Him and His good pleasure! -St. Elizabeth of…
Tuesday, April 30th
If we fall, an act of love will set all right, and Jesus smiles. He helps us without seeming to do so; and the tears which sinners cause Him to shed are wiped away by our feeble love. Love can do all things. – St. Therese
Monday, April 29th
Neither skill nor knowledge is required to go to God, but just a heart determined to turn to Him only, to beat for Him only, and to love Him only. -Brother Lawrence
Sunday, April 28th
The Way of Spiritual Childhood…is the only means to make rapid progress in love and the only way by which saints are made. – St. Therese
Saturday, April 27th
To live by love is to banish all fear, all remembrance of past faults. – St. Therese
Friday, April 26th
God acts with other weaker souls as though he were showing himself and then hiding; he does this to exercise them in his love, for without these withdrawals they would not learn to reach him. – St. John of the Cross
Thursday, April 25th
As a result the soul recognizes the truth about its misery, of which it was formerly ignorant. When it was walking in festivity, gratification, consolation, and support in God, it was more content, believing that it was serving God in some way. Though this idea of serving God may not…