After God places these three last kinds of good in the soul, he no longer remembers her former ugliness and sin, as he declares through Ezekiel [Ez. 18:22], for on account of these goods she is very agreeable to him. And once he has blotted out this sin and ugliness,…
There is no companionship which affords comfort to the soul that longs for God; indeed, until she finds Him everything causes greater solitude. – St. John of the Cross
I repeat, it is necessary that your foundation consist of more than prayer and contemplation. If you do not strive for the virtues and practice them, you will always be dwarfs. – St. Teresa of Avila
Have patience with yourself, the Lord does. – St. Teresa Benedicta (Edith Stein)
Through the centuries, the visible events of the Church’s history are always prepared in the silent dialogues of souls consecrated with His Blood. – St. Teresa Benedicta (Edith Stein)
Many of these beginners …feel an aversion toward adapting their will to God’s. Hence they frequently believe that what is not their will, or brings them no satisfaction, is not God’s will, and, on the other hand, that if they are satisfied, God is too. They measure God by themselves…
Remember that you have but one soul and have but once to die; no more than one short life, which is yours and yours only; that there is but one glory and that is eternal. – St. Teresa of Avila
Some are very insistent that their spiritual director allow them to do what they themselves want to do…They are under the impression that they do not serve God when they are not allowed to do what they want. -St. John of the Cross
But they, O my God and my life, will see and experience Your mild touch, who withdraw from the world and become mild, bringing the mild into harmony with the mild, thus enabling themselves to experience and enjoy You. – St. John of the Cross
If in periods of physical depression and spiritual discouragement it is difficult for us to gather our energies to lift ourselves up, let us rest in the Lord and not grieve over it. – Bl. M. Josephine of Jesus Crucified