It’s an amusing thing that even though we still have a thousand impediments and imperfections and our virtues have hardly begun to grow -and please, God, they might have begun- we are yet not ashamed to seek spiritual delights in prayer or to complain about dryness. -St. Teresa of Avila
The deeper a soul is bound to God, the more completely surrendered to grace, the stronger will be its influence on the form of the church. Conversely, the more an era is engulfed in the night of sin and estrangement from God the more it needs souls united to God.…
Without any need for us, He created us. Every work of His power was directed to mankind. Everything has been put at our disposal. -St. Teresa of the Andes
If you were to understand how important this virtue (love of neighbor) is for us you wouldn’t engage in any other study. -St. Teresa of Avila
Live in faith and hope even though you are in darkness, for in this darkness God enfolds the soul. Cast your cares upon God, for you are His, and He will never forget you. -St.John of the Cross
Your wisdom, O Word, is like the bush you showed to Moses, which burned, but was not consumed…Those who seek and go after the wisdom that is human abhor your wisdom, but to God human wisdom is foolishness….In addition, by abhorring your wisdom, they deny themselves union with you, for…
True spirituality seeks for bitterness rather than sweetness in God, inclines to suffering rather than consolation. It knows that this is to follow Christ and deny self, while the other course is perhaps nothing but seeking oneself in God, which is the very opposite of love. -St. John of the…
… When there is union of love, the image of the Beloved is so sketched in the will and drawn so vividly, that it is true to say that the Beloved lives in the lover and the lover in the Beloved….The reason is, that in the union and transformation of…
My Jesus, I am determined to be all yours, whatever the cost, and despite every repugnance. St. Teresa Margaret Redi
To lose always and let everyone else win is a trait of valiant souls, generous spirits, and unselfish hearts; it is their manner to give rather than receive even to the extent of giving themselves. They consider it a heavy burden to possess themselves, and it pleases them more to…