Monday, June 26th
He has borne with many offences and much unworthiness in you, yet these have not sufficed to make Him turn away; is it much to ask that you should sometimes shift your gaze from earthly things to fix it on Him? -St. Teresa of Avila
Category: Hearthcakes
Sunday, June 25th
It benefits me little to be alone making acts of devotion to our Lord, proposing and promising to do wonders in his service, if I then go away and when the occasion offers itself do everything the opposite. If his Majesty showed us his love by means of such works…
Saturday, June 24th
The more God gives the more He makes us desire, until we are empty and He is able to fill us with good things. -St. John of the Cross
Friday, June 23rd
I am the happiest creature in the world. God is infinite joy. -St. Teresa of the Andes
Thursday, June 22nd
Be therefore earnest in prayer, and hope in detachment and emptiness. Your good will not be long in coming. -St. John of the Cross
Wednesday, June 21st
I know, too, that our progress has nothing to do with the body, which is the thing that matters least. What the journey which I am referring to demands is great humility, and it is the lack of this, I think, if you see what I mean, which prevents us…
Tuesday, June 20th
If a man is moved to love God apart from any sweetness he feels, he is already focusing his love upon God, who he does not feel. -St. John of the Cross
Monday, June 19th
In what does true poverty consist? It is to not even possess our own will, in being detached from our own judgement. -St. Teresa of the Andes
Sunday, June 18th
Never fear that the Lord Who invites us to drink of the fountain will allow us to die of thirst. -St. Teresa of Avila
Saturday, June 17th
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
Sunday, June 25th
It benefits me little to be alone making acts of devotion to our Lord, proposing and promising to do wonders in his service, if I then go away and when the occasion offers itself do everything the opposite. If his Majesty showed us his love by means of such works…
Saturday, June 24th
The more God gives the more He makes us desire, until we are empty and He is able to fill us with good things. -St. John of the Cross
Friday, June 23rd
I am the happiest creature in the world. God is infinite joy. -St. Teresa of the Andes
Thursday, June 22nd
Be therefore earnest in prayer, and hope in detachment and emptiness. Your good will not be long in coming. -St. John of the Cross
Wednesday, June 21st
I know, too, that our progress has nothing to do with the body, which is the thing that matters least. What the journey which I am referring to demands is great humility, and it is the lack of this, I think, if you see what I mean, which prevents us…
Tuesday, June 20th
If a man is moved to love God apart from any sweetness he feels, he is already focusing his love upon God, who he does not feel. -St. John of the Cross
Monday, June 19th
In what does true poverty consist? It is to not even possess our own will, in being detached from our own judgement. -St. Teresa of the Andes
Sunday, June 18th
Never fear that the Lord Who invites us to drink of the fountain will allow us to die of thirst. -St. Teresa of Avila
Saturday, June 17th
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