When the devil meets with a too delicate conscience, he tries to make it much more delicate, and to reduce it to extreme distress, so that it may be so wretchedly disturbed as at last to fall out of the race for spiritual improvement.
–Saint Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556)
I would always choose the path of suffering, if only to imitate Our Lord Jesus Christ, if there were no other gain.
–Saint Teresa of Avila (1515-1582)
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)
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)
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)
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)
