Monday, August 7th
God gave us faculties for our use; each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us try to charm them to sleep, but permit them to do their work until divinely called to something higher. – St. Teresa of Avila
Category: Hearthcakes
Tuesday, August 6th
I desire to fulfill perfectly Your will, and to reach the degree of glory You have prepared for me in Your kingdom. In a word, I wish to be holy, but, knowing how helpless I am, I beseech You, my God, to be Yourself my holiness. -St. Therese
Monday, August 5th
And how right the devil is to direct his attacks so that the soul give up prayer! The traitor knows that he has lost the soul that practices prayer perseveringly and that all the falls he helps it to take assist it afterward, through the goodness of God, to make…
Sunday, August 4th
Although in this condition the will freely receives this general and confused knowledge of God, it is needful, in order that it may receive this Divine light more simply and abundantly, only that it should not try to interpose other lights which are more palpable, whether forms or ideas or…
Saturday, August 3rd
The more a person lives recollected in the interior of his soul, the stronger is that radiation which he sheds around him and which draws other souls into his circle. – St. Teresa Benedicta (Edith Stein)
Friday, August 2nd
When God’s love takes possession of a heart, it transforms it, it makes human love divine, so to speak. -St. Teresa de los Andes
Thursday, August 1st
God would have you keep back nothing from Him, little or great. He will have it all; in proportion to what you know you have given will your reward be great or small. – St. Teresa of Avila
Wednesday, July 31st
I am glad to recognize that when we love God our heart expands, and we can give incomparably more tender love to those who are dear to us than when our love is selfish and barren… Love is fed by and develops from sacrifice. – St. Therese
Tuesday, July 30th
For, however dark a night may be, something can always be seen, but in true darkness nothing can be seen; and thus in the night of sense there still remains some light, for the understanding and reason remain, and are not blinded. But this spiritual night, which is faith, deprives…
Monday, July 29th
How serious life is: each minute is given us in order to “root” us deeper in God, as Saint Paul says, so the resemblance to our divine Model may be more striking, the union more intimate. But to accomplish this plan, which is that of God Himself, here is the…
Tuesday, August 6th
I desire to fulfill perfectly Your will, and to reach the degree of glory You have prepared for me in Your kingdom. In a word, I wish to be holy, but, knowing how helpless I am, I beseech You, my God, to be Yourself my holiness. -St. Therese
Monday, August 5th
And how right the devil is to direct his attacks so that the soul give up prayer! The traitor knows that he has lost the soul that practices prayer perseveringly and that all the falls he helps it to take assist it afterward, through the goodness of God, to make…
Sunday, August 4th
Although in this condition the will freely receives this general and confused knowledge of God, it is needful, in order that it may receive this Divine light more simply and abundantly, only that it should not try to interpose other lights which are more palpable, whether forms or ideas or…
Saturday, August 3rd
The more a person lives recollected in the interior of his soul, the stronger is that radiation which he sheds around him and which draws other souls into his circle. – St. Teresa Benedicta (Edith Stein)
Friday, August 2nd
When God’s love takes possession of a heart, it transforms it, it makes human love divine, so to speak. -St. Teresa de los Andes
Thursday, August 1st
God would have you keep back nothing from Him, little or great. He will have it all; in proportion to what you know you have given will your reward be great or small. – St. Teresa of Avila
Wednesday, July 31st
I am glad to recognize that when we love God our heart expands, and we can give incomparably more tender love to those who are dear to us than when our love is selfish and barren… Love is fed by and develops from sacrifice. – St. Therese
Tuesday, July 30th
For, however dark a night may be, something can always be seen, but in true darkness nothing can be seen; and thus in the night of sense there still remains some light, for the understanding and reason remain, and are not blinded. But this spiritual night, which is faith, deprives…
Monday, July 29th
How serious life is: each minute is given us in order to “root” us deeper in God, as Saint Paul says, so the resemblance to our divine Model may be more striking, the union more intimate. But to accomplish this plan, which is that of God Himself, here is the…