My God, I desire nothing save to become your perfect image; and since yours was a hidden life of humiliation, love and sacrifice, so also I wish mine to be. I desire to enclose myself henceforth within your most loving Heart as in a desert, so that I may live…
The noblest inspirations are worth nothing without good works. -St. Therese
I do not only see the richness of the water’s nature, its immeasurable potential, but I see God working within the work of his hands and the revelation of his love. -St. Titus Brandsma
God gives me courage in proportion to my sufferings. I feel at this moment I couldn’t suffer any more, but I’m not afraid since if they increase, He will increase my courage at the same time. – St. Therese
Believe that He loves you. He wants to help you Himself in the struggles you must undergo. Believe in His Love. His exceeding love. – St. Elizabeth of the Trinity
Beg our Lord to grant you perfect love of neighbor and leave the rest to Him. -St. Teresa of Avila
Devotion to Jesus Eucharistic will be, and is for me the source of patience, of perseverance, of refuge, of consolation. It is literally the very source of my life. Without this mystery of the Savior’s love left us in the Church, I would have been lost long ago. -St. Raphael…
..my prayer is quite powerless, but I possess within me the Holy One of God, the Great Supplicant, and that is the prayer I am offering… -St. Elizabeth of the Trinity
Each incident, each event, each suffering, as well as each joy, is a sacrament which gives God to it; so it no longer makes a distinction between these things; it surmounts them, goes beyond them to rest in its Master, above all things. -St. Elizabeth of the Trinity
The devil does a great deal to incapacitate us when he sees a little fear. -St. Teresa of Avila