Thursday, July 13th
The meek are those who know how to suffer their neighbor and themselves. – St. John of the Cross
Category: Hearthcakes
Wednesday, July 12th
Yes, all my hopes will be fulfilled. The Lord will work wonders in me which will even surpass my great desires. -St. Therese
Tuesday, July 11th
This is a test to discern the true lover of God. Is he satisfied with anything less than God? For the satisfaction of the heart is not found in possessions but in detachment from all things and poverty of spirit. -St. John of the Cross
Monday, July 10th
He will gaze on you with beautiful, compassionate eyes, and will forget His own grief to solace yours, only because you went to comfort Him, and turned to look at Him. -St. Teresa of Avila
Sunday, July 9th
“What is grace” I asked God. And He said, “All that happens.” Then He added, when I looked perplexed,“Could not lovers say that every moment in their Beloved’s arms was grace? Existence is my arms, though I well understand how one can turn away from me until the heart has…
Saturday, July 8th
I can say that my life is a continuous prayer, for everything I do I do it out out of love for my Jesus. -St. Teresa of the Andes
Friday, July 7th
Though I still had as keen an eye for the human weaknesses of others, I no longer made it an instrument for striking them at their most vulnerable point, but, rather, for protecting them. – St. Teresa Benedicta (Edith Stein)
Thursday, July 6th
As the soul abode in solitude, abandoning all created help and consolation in order to obtain fellowship and union with the Beloved, it deserved thereby the peace of solitude in the Beloved, in whom it reposes alone, undisturbed by any anxiety. -St. John of the Cross
Wednesday, July 5th
You may be sure, if you do all you can and prepare yourselves for contemplation as I have described, that if He does not grant it to you, He is keeping back this consolation in reserve only to give it to you all at once in heaven. -St. Teresa of…
Tuesday, July 4th
The soul which does not attain to the degree of purity corresponding with the light and vocation it has received from God can never be wholly content and at peace. -St. John of the Cross
Wednesday, July 12th
Yes, all my hopes will be fulfilled. The Lord will work wonders in me which will even surpass my great desires. -St. Therese
Tuesday, July 11th
This is a test to discern the true lover of God. Is he satisfied with anything less than God? For the satisfaction of the heart is not found in possessions but in detachment from all things and poverty of spirit. -St. John of the Cross
Monday, July 10th
He will gaze on you with beautiful, compassionate eyes, and will forget His own grief to solace yours, only because you went to comfort Him, and turned to look at Him. -St. Teresa of Avila
Sunday, July 9th
“What is grace” I asked God. And He said, “All that happens.” Then He added, when I looked perplexed,“Could not lovers say that every moment in their Beloved’s arms was grace? Existence is my arms, though I well understand how one can turn away from me until the heart has…
Saturday, July 8th
I can say that my life is a continuous prayer, for everything I do I do it out out of love for my Jesus. -St. Teresa of the Andes
Friday, July 7th
Though I still had as keen an eye for the human weaknesses of others, I no longer made it an instrument for striking them at their most vulnerable point, but, rather, for protecting them. – St. Teresa Benedicta (Edith Stein)
Thursday, July 6th
As the soul abode in solitude, abandoning all created help and consolation in order to obtain fellowship and union with the Beloved, it deserved thereby the peace of solitude in the Beloved, in whom it reposes alone, undisturbed by any anxiety. -St. John of the Cross
Wednesday, July 5th
You may be sure, if you do all you can and prepare yourselves for contemplation as I have described, that if He does not grant it to you, He is keeping back this consolation in reserve only to give it to you all at once in heaven. -St. Teresa of…
Tuesday, July 4th
The soul which does not attain to the degree of purity corresponding with the light and vocation it has received from God can never be wholly content and at peace. -St. John of the Cross