Out of trials…
His Majesty (the Lord) rewards great services with trials, and there can be no better reward, for out of trials springs love for God.
–Saint Teresa of Avila (1515-1582)
The most afflicted…
Let us consider what the glorious Virgin endured, and what the holy apostles suffered, and we shall find that they who were nearest to Jesus Christ were the most afflicted.
–Saint Teresa of Avila (1515-1582)
More you struggle…
Dream that the more you struggle, the more you prove the love that you bear your God, and the more you will rejoice one day with your Beloved, in a happiness and rapture that can never end.
–Saint Teresa of Avila (1515-1582)
How to die…
Everything seems to me to pass so quickly that we must concentrate on how to die rather than on how to live. How sweet it is to die if one has lived on the Cross with Christ.
–Saint Teresa of Avila (1515-1582)
Trials endured…
Think often of the weariness of His journey and of how much harder His trials were than those which you have to suffer. However hard you may imagine yours to be, and however much affliction they may cause you, they will be a source of comfort to you, for you will see that they are matters for scorn compared with the trials endured by the Lord.
–Saint Teresa of Avila (1515-1582)
To suffer willingly…
The road is narrow. He who wishes to travel it more easily must cast off all things and use the cross as his cane. In other words, he must be truly resolved to suffer willingly for the love of God in all things.
–Saint John of the Cross (1542-1591)
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