I loved freedom of heart very much, and worked and am working to achieve it fully. It does the soul so much good that every effort is nothing compared with this free condition of the heart.
–Saint Genoveva Torres Morales (1870-1956)
Intimacy with the Lord is not a matter of physical kinship; rather, it is achieved by cheerful readiness to do the will of God.
–Saint Basil the Great (329-379)
It is sweet to think of Jesus; but it is sweeter to do His will.
–Blessed Mary of Jesus Crucified (1846-1878)
Let us establish a permanent Spring season in our heart through ‘yes’ often repeated to all of God’s permissions and wills.
–Saint Francesca Salesia Aviat (1844-1914)
The entirely comfortable being-at-home in the world, the satiety of pleasures that it offers, the demand for these pleasures and the matter-of-course consent to these demands – all of this that human nature considers bright daily life – all of this is darkness in God’s eyes and incompatible with the divine light. It has to be totally uprooted if room for God is to be made in the soul.
–Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (1891-1942)
How fleeting all earthly things are, and everything that appears great disappears like smoke, and does not give the soul freedom, but weariness. Happy the soul that understands these things and with only one foot touches the earth.
— Saint Faustina (1905-1938)
