Just as the angels in heaven incessantly sing His praises, so does a Carmelite echo those praises here on earth, whether near to the tabernacle where God who is Love lives imprisoned, or in the intimate depths of her soul’s heaven, where faith tells her God dwells. Our vocation’s objective…
It is possible to remain little even in the most responsible position, and besides is it not written, that at the last day ‘The Lord will arise and save the meek and lowly ones of the earth’? He does not say ‘to judge’ but ‘to save!’ -St. Therese
It is enough to keep closed the outside doors, which are the senses; then it seems to me that the soul cannot go elsewhere than to its center which is God. – St. Teresa Margaret Redi
He who does not hold the reins of his whole being tightly in his hand is not at all at the height where he can make his decisions with true Freedom: on the contrary he will always be subject to exterior influences. – St. Teresa Benedicta (Edith Stein)
Since our Lord dwells in our souls, His prayer is ours. -St. Elizabeth of the Trinity
By entering Carmel you undertook to reproduce in yourself the life of the Crucified. – St. Teresa Margaret Redi
Once while I was thinking of the distress it caused me to eat meat and not do penance, I understood that sometimes my distress was more a matter of self love than a desire for penance. -St. Teresa of Avila
The lukewarm are very lax and remiss in their will and spirit, and have no solicitude about serving God. Those suffering from the purgative dryness are ordinarily solicitous, concerned, and pained about not serving God. – St. John of the Cross
I found the secret of suffering in peace – I don’t say joy. To suffer in peace, it is enough to will all that Jesus wills. – St. Therese
I had many friends to help me to fall; but as to rising again, I was so much left to myself, that I wonder now I was not always on the ground. I praise God for His mercy; for it was He only Who stretched out His hand to me.…