Thursday, January 19th
Don’t imagine that, if you had a great deal of time, you would spend more of it in prayer. Get rid of that idea; it is no hindrance to prayer to spend your time well. -St.Teresa of Avila
Wednesday, January 18th
O my God, if I might be made worthy to give my life for the good of souls and to put an end to all this malice, what a comfort this would be! – St. Mary Magdalene De’Pazzi
Tuesday, January 17th
The nothingness of me is strangely loved: Sustaining ever The all of love, my need is strangely here: Departing never. – St. Therese
Monday, January 16th
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
Sunday, January 15th
…my prayer is quite powerless, but I possess within me the Holy One of God, the Great Supplicant, and that is the prayer I am offering… -St. Elizabeth of the Trinity
Saturday, January 14th
Not all the faculties and senses have to be employed in things, but only those which are required; as for the others leave them unoccupied for God. -St.John of the Cross
Friday, January 13th
We carry our heaven within us, since He who completely satisfies every longing of the glorified souls in the light of the Beatific Vision, is giving Himself to us in faith and mystery. -St. Elizabeth of theTrinity
Thursday, January 12th
Only the person who renounces self-importance, who no longer struggles to defend or assert himself, can be large enough for God’s boundless action. – St. Teresa Benedicta (Edith Stein)
Wednesday, January 11th
God would have you keep back nothing from Him, little or great. He will have it all; in proportion to what you know you have given will your reward be great or small. – St. Teresa of Avila
Tuesday, January 10th
What do you think serving God involves other than avoiding evil, keeping His commandments, and being occupied with the things of God as best we can? When this is had, what need is there of other apprehensions or other lights and satisfactions from this source or that. -St. John of…