However great the abundance of this water He gives, there cannot be too much in anything of His. If He gives a great deal, He gives the soul, as I said, the capacity to drink much; like a glass-maker who makes the vessel a size he sees is necessary in…
…the more habituated persons become to this calm, the more their experience of this general, loving knowledge of God will increase. – St. John of the Cross
What is there for you to fear if God has promised to hear us each time we have recourse to Him? – St. Teresa Margaret Redi
Even though it is true that these are blessings the Lord gives to whomsoever he wills, His Majesty would give them all to us if we loved him as he loves us. He doesn’t desire anything else than to have those to whom to give. His riches do not lessen…
Everything will be for Jesus- yes, everything – and even when I have nothing to offer, I shall give Him this nothing. -St. Therese
The greatest proof of trust you could give God is to accept from the depths of your heart, that His will be done in you, no matter what it be. – Pere Jacques
The door by which we can enter this castle is prayer. It is absurd to think that we can enter Heaven without first entering our own souls — without getting to know ourselves, and reflecting upon the wretchedness of our nature and what we owe to God, and continually imploring…
What have I to do on heaven and on earth except to please my God and give myself up to Him continually? – Bl. Marie of the Incarnation (Madame Acarie)
That is the whole life of Carmel; to live in Him, then, all sacrifices, all immolations become divine, for through everything the soul sees Him whom it loves and everything leads it to Him; it is a continual heart to heart exchange! You see that you can already be a…
Through this humility acquired by means of self-knowledge, individuals are purged of all those imperfections of the vice of pride into which they fell in the time of their prosperity. Aware of their own dryness and wretchedness, the thought of their being more advanced than others does not even occur…