And without this purgation it will be wholly unable to feel or experience the satisfaction of all this abundance of spiritual sweetness. For one single affection remaining in the spirit, or one particular thing to which, actually or habitually, it clings, suffices to hinder it from feeling or experiencing or…
And although for so great a gain all that we must endure is but a poor price to pay, I assure you, daughters, that this pledge of what is in store for us is needed to inspire us with courage to bear our crosses. -St. Teresa of Avila
Our Lord does not come from Heaven every day to stay in a golden ciborium. He comes to find another Heaven, the Heaven of our soul in which He loves to dwell. – St. Therese
Many of these beginners …feel an aversion toward adapting their will to God’s. Hence they frequently believe that what is not their will, or brings them no satisfaction, is not God’s will, and, on the other hand, that if they are satisfied, God is too. They measure God by themselves…
I assure you that the good Lord is much kinder than you can imagine. -St. Therese
What offends Jesus, what wounds His Sacred Heart, is lack of confidence in Him. -St. Therese
While the soul is in mortal sin nothing can profit it; none of its good works merit an eternal reward, since they do not proceed from God as their first principle, and by Him alone is our virtue real virtue. -St. Teresa of Avila
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
Believe me, in the presence of Infinite Wisdom, …one act of humility is worth more than all the knowledge of the world. – St. Teresa of Avila
Have an intimate desire that His Majesty grant you what he knows you lack for his honor. – St. John of the Cross