I have understood that the thing that separates me most from God is my pride. I propose to be humble. Without humility the other virtues are hypocrisy. … Humility gains us similarity to Christ, peace of soul, holiness and intimate union with God. – St. Teresa of the Andes
Since this flame is a flame of divine life, it wounds the soul with the tenderness of God’s life, and it wounds and stirs it so deeply as to make it dissolve in love. What the bride affirmed in the Song of Songs is fulfilled in the soul. She was…
Remember that you have only one soul; that you have only one death to die; that you have only one life, which is short and has to be lived by you alone; and there is only one Glory, which is eternal. If you do this, there will be many things…
If only we knew Him we should love Him in the same way in this world, and although not so constantly and so perfectly as in heaven, yet very differently from what we do now. -St. Teresa of Avila
The Saint used to say that in calamitous. troublesome, grave, ad humanly speaking desperate matters, the only remedy was patience, silence, resignation, and prayer. -on St. Teresa Margret Redi
Nothing goes well for me this year. But God is merciful when He burdens us with crosses. -St. Raphael Kalinowski
God knows what is best for all, and orders affairs for our good. Think on this only, that all is ordained by God. -St. John of the Cross
I saw the river over which every soul must pass to reach the kingdom of heaven and the name of the river was Suffering. And I saw the boat which carries souls across that river, and the name of that boat was Love. -St. John of the Cross
No harm can come to me since, in whatever happens, I see only the tender hand of Jesus. -St. Therese
This is the first and principal benefit caused by this arid and dark night of contemplation: the knowledge of oneself and of one’s misery. – St. John of the Cross