Always love prayer, and when I say prayer, I don’t mean so much imposing on yourself a lot of vocal prayers to be recited every day, as much as that elevation of the soul towards God through all things that establishes us in a kind of continual communion with the…
I keep myself indifferent to the will of God. As I’m only seeking and keeping Him contented, what does anything else matter? -St. Teresa de los Andes
The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit. – St. Teresa of Avila
Stay with me, Jesus, my delight, Your presence near makes all things right. -Bl. Titus Brandsma
When I see souls very earnest in trying to understand the prayer they have and very sullen when they are in it- for it seems they don’t dare let their minds move or stir lest a bit of their spiritualdelight and devotion be lost- it makes me realize how little…
The nothingness of me is strangely loved: Sustaining ever The all of love, my need is strangely here: Departing never. – St. Therese
God is ready to pardon a sinner who humbles himself. He looks with more love on a soul who returns to Him in Humility, than on a faithful soul who finds pleasure in its virtues. – Bl. Mary of Jesus Crucified
The bread of life that we need each day to augment eternal life in us renders our will a docile instrument of the divine will, establishes in us the kingdom of God, and purifies our lips and heart to glorify His holy name. – St. Teresa Benedicta (Edith Stein)
The will of God is spiritual food that strengthens the soul who willingly gives herself to Him. -St. Teresa de los Andes
Source of peace and light, come and enlighten me. I am hungry, come and feed me; thirsty, come and refresh me; blind, come and give me sight; poor, come and enrich me;ignorant, come and instruct me. Holy Spirit, I abandon myself to You. -St. Mary of Jesus Crucified