Looking at things from God’s viewpoint there is no such thing as chance; my whole life, down to the last detail, is traced in the plan of divine Providence and, to the all seeing eyes of God, constitutes a perfectly intelligible whole. – St. Teresa Benedicta (Edith Stein)
I know that the more rapidly one advances on the way of perfection, the further one considers one’s self from the goal. – St. Therese
We must enter continually more deeply into the Divine Being by means of recollection. ‘I press on’ cried St Paul (Phil. 3:14). Thus, every day we must go down deeper along the path of the abyss that is God, letting ourselves slide down the slope in a confidence that is…
The Lord said to me, don’t be afraid that My mercy will fail you. – St. Teresa of Avila
I have found heaven on earth, since heaven is God, and God is in my soul. My mission in heaven will be to draw souls, helping them to go out of themselves to cling to God, with a spontaneous, love-filled action, and to keep them in that great interior silence…
O true God and my Lord! It is a great consolation for the soul wearied by the loneliness of being separated from You to see that You are everywhere. -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
Isn’t love shown in sacrifice? When I think about Jesus’ love, then everything I can offer him seems to me so little. -St. Teresa of the Andes
I invited the whole earth to bless you, to serve you. Forever and always, never to end! I invited the entire sea to bless you, to serve you. Forever and always, never to end! I called him, invited ungrateful man, to bless you, to serve you, to praise and to…
It’s true that we cannot live without faults, but at least there should be some change so that they don’t take root. If they take root, they will be harder to eradicate and even many others could arise from them. – St. Teresa of Avila