Oh, then, when everything was dark, when the present was so painful and the future seemed even more gloomy to me, I closed my eyes and abandoned myself like a child in the arms of this Heavenly Father… We look at ourselves too much, we want to see and understand,…
O Lord, give me all that leads me to You. O Lord, take everything that diverts me from You. O Lord, wrest me from myself and give me wholly to You. – St. Teresa Benedicta (Edith Stein)
If individuals resolutely submit to carrying the cross, if they decidedly want to find and endure trial in all things for God, they will discover in all of them great relief and sweetness. -St. John of the Cross
Why fear to offer yourself as a victim to God’s Merciful Love? If it were to His Divine Justice you might have reason to fear, but the Merciful Love will have pity on your weakness and will treat you with tenderest mercy. – St. Therese
We must dig deeply in Christ. He is like a rich mine with many pockets containing treasures: however deep we dig we will never find their end or their limit. Indeed, in every pocket new seams of fresh riches are discovered on all sides. -St. John of the Cross
In sum, there is no remedy in this tempest but to wait for the mercy of God. For at an unexpected time, with one word or a chance happening, He so quickly calms the storm that it seems there had not been even as much as a cloud in that…
Our Lord thirsts for our love. He suffered from Bethlehem to Calvary and forged chains by which to live in the tabernacle together with us. Don’t we have a little love for this Divine Beggar? – St. Teresa of the Andes
O Lord, my God, who will seek You with simple and pure love and not find You are all he desires, for You show Yourself first and go out to meet those who desire You? -St. John of the Cross
We shouldn’t build castles in the air. The Lord doesn’t look so much at the greatness of our works, but at the love with which they are done. -St. Teresa of Avila
In these aridities the soul practices corporally and spiritually all the virtues, theological as well as cardinal and moral. – St. John of the Cross