I am glad to recognize that when we love God our heart expands, and we can give incomparably more tender love to those who are dear to us than when our love is selfish and barren… Love is fed by and develops from sacrifice. – St. Therese
In judging others a man labors in vain, often errs, and easily sins: but in judging and in looking into himself, he always labors with fruit. – St. Therese
I didn’t know You, my Lord, because I still desired to know and relish things. – St. John of the Cross
Blessed is he who, setting aside his own liking and inclination, considers things according to reason and justice before doing them. – St. John of the Cross
When under the action of detachment and spiritual darkness, faith plants firm roots in the soul, hope and charity likewise flow into it; a charity that logically does not manifest itself by giving a sensation of sweetness, but rather by producing in the soul a strength, a more decisive courage,…
Jesus points out to me the only way which leads to Love’s furnace – that way is self-surrender – it is the confidence of the little child who sleeps without fear in its father’s arms. -St. Therese
Since I have no other desire than to unite myself to the heart of Jesus, for that reason I try to keep up my effort in the practice of those virtues that can render me a true copy of my dear God. – St. Teresa Margaret Redi
A soul united to Jesus and identified with him can do everything. It seems to me that this can be reached only by prayer. – St. Teresa de los Andes
Believe me, the question is not whether we wear the religious habit or not, but whether we practice the virtues and submit our will in all things to the will of God. -St. Teresa of Avila
One attains possession of a knowledge of the cross only when one experiences the cross to the very depths. – St. Teresa Benedicta (Edith Stein)