Sometimes … after receiving Communion I was at peace. And sometimes, in approaching the Sacrament, I felt at once so good in soul and body that I was surprised. It seems that in only a moment all the darknesses of the soul disperse. -St. Teresa of Avila
Let Christ crucified be enough for you, and with Him suffer and take your rest, and hence annihilate yourself in all inward and outward things. – St. John of the Cross
For my heart is always with Him, day and night it thinks unceasingly of its heavenly and divine Friend, to whom it wants to prove its affection. Also within it arises this desire: not to die, but to suffer long, to suffer for God, to give Him its life while…
It is trust and nothing but trust that must lead us to Love. -St. Therese
Vocal prayer . . . must be accompanied by reflection. A prayer in which a person is not aware of Whom he is speaking to, what he is asking, who it is who is asking and of Whom, I don’t call prayer—–however much the lips may move. – St. Teresa…
As long as this attachment remains, it is impossible to make progress in perfection, even though the imperfection be very small. It makes little difference whether a bird is tied by a thin thread or by a cord. Even if it is tied by a thread, the bird will be…
The more lofty the degree of loving union to which God destines the soul, so much more profound and persistent must be its purification. -St. Teresa Benedicta
The Grace that God has given me, after Baptism and the Eucharist, is all the greater and more sublime, the more unworthy my person is. -Bl. Maria Felicia
He who wants to win the world for Christ must have the courage to come in conflict with it. – St. Titus Brandsma
The love that Christ has ignited burns in the soul as a calm flame and encourages the soul to live with the love of God and inflame close ones with that love. – St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross