Humility, Page: Quotes, Prayer (how), Quote Author, Quote Topic, Teresa of Avila (1515-1582)
My desire is to clearly describe matters related to prayer. This will be very difficult for the uninitiated to understand. It is best for us so not to attempt to rise by its own efforts. If the well is dry, we are not able to put water into it. Pay attention to this. If the soul tries to go forward it may actually go backward. The foundation for prayer is humility. The nearer we come to God, the more you humility we need. There is a kind of pride that makes us want to be more spiritual. God is already doing more for us than we deserve.
–Saint Teresa of Avila (1515-1582)
Page: Quotes, Sainthood, Struggle (with Sin)
The saints all passed through many temptations and trials to profit by them, while those who could not resist became reprobate and fell away. There is no state so holy, no place so secret that temptations and trials will not come. Man is never safe from them as long as he lives, for they come from within us—in sin we were born.
— Thomas à Kempis (1380-1471)
Page: Quotes, Spiritual (life)
How dry and hard you are without Jesus! How foolish and vain if you desire anything but him! Is it not a greater loss than losing the whole world? For what, without Jesus, can the world give you? Life without Him Is a relentless hell, but living with Him is a sweet paradise. If Jesus be with you, no enemy can harm you.
— Thomas à Kempis (1380-1471)
Jerome (c. 340-420), Page: Quotes, Quote Author, Quote Topic, Spiritual (life)
Endeavor to have always in your hand a pious book, that with this shield you may defend yourself against bad thoughts.
–Saint Jerome (c. 340-420)
Evangelization, Jerome (c. 340-420), Page: Quotes, Quote Author, Quote Topic
No one cares to speak to an unwilling listener. An arrow never lodges in a stone: often it recoils upon the sender of it.
–Saint Jerome (c. 340-420)
Abandonment (of self), Grace, Page: Quotes, Quote Author, Quote Topic, Therese of Lisieux (1873-1897)
I am not always faithful, but I never get discouraged. I abandon myself into the arms of Jesus and there I find again all that I have lost and much more besides.
–Saint Therese of Lisieux (1873-1897)
