A work done without a feeling of pleasure is more pleasing to God than many others done with great delight and feeling. Therefore, when you find yourself in a state of dryness and depression, be glad and exult that God has deigned to give you those greater gifts and sweetest…
Feed not your spirit on anything but God. Cast off concern about things, and bear peace and recollection in your heart. – St. John of the Cross
If we abandon ourselves, and place our confidence in God, while making every small effort and hoping for everything from His mercy, we shall be rewarded as much as the greatest saints. -St. Therese
The whole aim of any person who is beginning prayer-and don’t forget this, because it’s very important-should be that he work and prepare himself with determination and every possible effort to bring his will into conformity with God’s will…The greatest perfection attainable along the spiritual path lies in this conformity.…
Those who now desire to question God or receive some vision or revelation are guilty not only of foolish behavior but of also offending Him by not fixing their eyes entirely on Christ and by living with the desire for some other novelty. – St. John of the Cross
Since Jesus wants to sleep why will I hinder Him? I am only too happy that He doesn’t bother with me, for He is showing me that I am not a stranger when treating me this way, for I assure you, He is going to no trouble about carrying on…
Along how many paths, in how many ways, by how many methods You show us love! -St. Teresa of Avila
Seek in reading and you will find in meditation; knock in prayer and it will be opened to you in contemplation. -St. John of the Cross
Let us live with God as with a friend, let us make our faith a living faith in order to be in communion with Him through everything, for that is what makes saints. -St. Elizabeth of the Trinity
When a soul is happy, living in close union with God, so as to make its life an intimate friendship with the Divine Master, when it knows how to find Him in its inmost depths, then it is never lonely again, and it feels the need of solitude in order…