Abandonment (of self), Page: Quotes, Quote Author, Quote Topic, Spiritual (life), Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (1891-1942)
They no longer live their life, but the life of Christ; they no longer suffer their own pain, but rather, the passion of Christ. Therefore they also rejoice in the life of grace that the Lord enkindles in other souls when the spark of divine love touches them and the wine of this love causes in them holy inebriation.
–Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (1891-1942)
Abandonment (of self), Death, Page: Quotes, Quote Author, Quote Topic, Teresa of Avila (1515-1582)
We are preparing ourselves for the time, which will come very soon, when we shall find ourselves at the end of our journey and shall be drinking of living water from the fountain I have described. Unless we make a total surrender of our will to the Lord, and put ourselves in His hands so that He may do in all things what is best for us in accordance with His will, He will never allow us to drink of it.
–Saint Teresa of Ávila (1515-1582)
Abandonment (of self), Page: Quotes, Quote Topic
Let us therefore give ourselves to God with a great desire to begin to live thus, and beg Him to destroy in us the life of the world of sin, and to establish His life within us.
–Saint John Eudes (1601-1689)
Abandonment (of self), Francis de Sales (1567-1622), Page: Quotes, Quote Author, Quote Topic, Spiritual (life)
Do not be angry, or at least troubled because you have been troubled; do not be overcome because you have allowed yourself to be overcome; do not be disquieted because you have allowed yourself to be disquieted by angry passions; but take your heart and place it gently in the hands of our Lord and ask Him to cure it; meanwhile, do all you can to renew and strengthen your good resolutions.
–Saint Francis de Sales (1567-1622)
Abandonment (of self), Page: Quotes, Quote Topic, Spiritual (life)
What God asks is a will which will no longer be divided between Him and any creature, a will pliant in His hands, which neither desires anything nor refuses anything, which wants without reservation everything which He wants, and which never, under any pretext, wants anything which He does not want.
–François Fénèlon (1651-1715)
Abandonment (of self), Page: Quotes, Quote Author, Quote Topic, Teresa of Calcutta (1910-1997)
Because I cannot rely on myself, I rely on Him, twenty-four hours a day.
— Saint Teresa of Calcutta (1910-1997)
