After you have made a decision that is pleasing to God, the Devil may try to make you have second thoughts. Intensify your prayer time, meditation, and good deeds. For if Satan’s temptations merely cause you to increase your efforts to grow in holiness, he’ll have an incentive to leave you alone.
–Saint Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556)
So come! With heads erect, let us advance, ignoring everything, and remaining always satisfied with God and with all that he makes us do and accomplishes within us. Let us take good care not to get foolishly involved in all those fears and doubts which, like paths leading nowhere, only tempt us to wander on and on until we are hopelessly lost. Let us leap over this maze of self-love instead of trying to explore its endless alleys.
–Jean-Pierre de Caussade (1675-1751)
It is far better to talk to God than to talk about Him, for there is so much self love intermingled with spiritual conversations.
–Saint Therese of Lisieux (1873-1897)
When we yield to discouragement or despair it is usually because we give too much thought to the past and to the future.
–Saint Therese of Lisieux (1873-1897)
Do you realize that Jesus is there in the tabernacle expressly for you – for you alone? He burns with the desire to come into your heart.
–Saint Therese of Lisieux (1873-1897)
Without prayer a man will not persevere long in spirituality; we must have recourse to this most powerful means of salvation every day.
–Saint Philip Neri (1515-1595)
