Tuesday, April 28th
What offends Jesus, what wounds His Sacred Heart, is lack of confidence in Him. -St. Therese

What offends Jesus, what wounds His Sacred Heart, is lack of confidence in Him. -St. Therese
While the soul is in mortal sin nothing can profit it; none of its good works merit an eternal reward, since they do not proceed from God as their first principle, and by Him alone is our virtue real virtue. -St. Teresa of Avila
Our good God ardently desires to give us the great treasure of His love; but He wants us to ask Him for it insistently, and to act in such a way that each work we perform will be a request for this love. – St. Teresa Margaret Redi
Believe me, in the presence of Infinite Wisdom, …one act of humility is worth more than all the knowledge of the world. – St. Teresa of Avila
Have an intimate desire that His Majesty grant you what he knows you lack for his honor. – St. John of the Cross
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…
What do you ask, then, and seek, my soul? Yours is all of this, and all is for you. Do not engage yourself in something less, nor pay heed to the crumbs which fall from your Father’s table. Go forth and exult in your Glory! Hide yourself in It and…
Never fear that the Lord Who invites us to drink of the fountain will allow us to die of thirst. -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
Is there any freedom greater than the freedom to serve God? Is there any freedom more complete than union with Him? Does He not free us from ties of money and property and selfishness, of avarice and pride and inconstancy? Is He not the only true Emancipator? Who is free…