With daring confidence, and reckless of self, I will remain there till death, my gaze fixed upon the Divine Sun. Nothing shall affright me, neither wind or rain; and should impenetrable clouds conceal from my eyes the Orb of Love, should it seem to me that beyond this life there…
You do not have enough trust. You have too much fear before the good God. I can assure you that He is grieved over this. – St. Therese
Especially persons of prayer should always be attached to St. Joseph… Those who cannot find a master to teach them prayer should take this glorious saint for their master, and they will not go astray. – St. Teresa of Avila
Imagine, also, that in this palace dwells this mighty King who has been so gracious enough to become your Father; and that he is seated upon an extremely valuable throne, which is your heart. -St. Teresa of Avila
It is by the Blood of the cross that He will make peace in my little heaven, so that it may truly be the repose of the Three. He will fill me with Himself; He will bury me with Him; He will make me live again with Him, by His…
A science of the cross can be gained only when one comes to feel the cross radically. – St. Teresa Benedicta (Edith Stein)
O my God, how fervent and strong is the charity of a soul who is united with You by love! Those whom You have taken to Yourself in this way, cannot confine themselves to their personal advantage, and be satisfied with it. Nor would it suffice for them to go…
Think how Our Lady must have felt when, after the Incarnation, she possessed within her the Incarnate Word, the gift of God! In what depths of silence, of recollection, of adoration, she must have lived in the center of her soul, in order to embrace that God whose Mother she…
May God who is all love be your unchanging dwelling place, your cell, your cloister in the midst of the world. -St. Elizabeth of the Trinity
I found myself so constricted on every side that the only remedy I discovered was to raise my eyes to heaven and call upon God…For there is no stable help but in God. -St. Teresa of Avila