How sweet is the way of love. True, one can fall or commit infidelities, but, knowing how to draw profit from everything, love quickly consumes everything that can be displeasing to Jesus; it leaves nothing but a humble and profound peace in the depths of the heart. – St. Therese
O my God, the more gently you touch, the more you are hidden in the purified souls of those who have made themselves aliens on earth, and whom you hide in the secret of your face. -St. John of the Cross
In heaven we will be surprised to see how different His judgment is from what we can understand here below. May He be praised forever. – St. Teresa of Avila
May nothing make you waver. Look at Him. He’s awaiting you and is filled with infinite love and will make you His bride. He wants to forge with you the most intimate union. He will make you divine, by joining Himself to you. You will live in Jesus amid infinite…
To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus to have acquired experience. – St. Teresa of Avila
I have never heard Him speak, but I know that He is within me. – St. Therese
In times of aridity when I am incapable of praying, of practicing virtue, I seek little opportunities, mere trifles, to give pleasure to Jesus; for instance a smile, a pleasant word when inclined to be silent and to show weariness. If I find no opportunities, I at least tell Him…
How happy I am to see myself imperfect and be in need of God’s mercy. -St Therese
What God seeks, He being Himself God by nature, is to make us gods through participation, just as fire converts all things into fire. – St. John of the Cross
Let yourself be seen by all as you really are. Just as we are in the sight of God, so let us be in the sight of all. – St. Teresa Benedicta