If you know how to accept the trials, worries, sufferings, and fatigue arranged by God throughout the days and hours of life, you will practice a lot of asceticism, and you will not have to look for more of it. Bl.-Pere Marie-Eugene of the Child Jesus, OCD
I’d like to make souls understand that the Eucharist is heaven, given because “heaven is only a tabernacle without doors, a Eucharist without veils, a communion without end. -St. Teresa de los Andes
Merit does not consist in doing or giving much. It consists in loving much. – St. Therese
The soul must forget about understanding, and abandon itself into the arms of love, and His Majesty will teach it what to do next. – St. Teresa of Avila
Preserve a habitual remembrance of eternal life, recalling that those who hold themselves the lowest and poorest and least of all will enjoy the highest dominion and glory in God. – St. John of the Cross
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…
We look at ourselves too much … we do not have enough trust in Him who enfolds us in His love. We must not stand in front of our cross and examine it in itself, but withdrawing into the light of faith,we must rise above it and consider that it…
I love Him with His own love. It is a double current between He who is and she who is not! – St. Elizabeth of the Trinity
…he does not permit himself in the quietude, but strives after the other more sensory experience. But the more habituated he becomes to this calm, the deeper his experience of the general loving knowledge of God will grow. – St. John of the Cross
His Majesty couldn’t grant us a greater favor than to give us a life that would be an imitation of the life His beloved Son lived. – St. Teresa of Avila