The life of prayer…
The life of prayer is just love to God, and the custom of being ever with Him.
–Saint Teresa of Avila (1515-1582)
When we accept…
When we accept what happens to us and make the best of it, we are praising God.
–Saint Teresa of Avila (1515-1582)
Life-giving prayer…
Perfume all your actions with the life-giving breath of prayer.
–Pope John XXIII (1881-1963)
Heavenly realities…
Tie the leg of a sparrow to the ground, and no matter how hard it tries to fly, it will be fastened to the earth. In the same way, if your intellect tries to fly up to the mystical knowledge of heavenly realities but has not yet been freed of obsessive passions, it will remain tied fast to the earth.
–Saint Maximos the Confessor (580-662)
With patient love…
With patient love, with self-abasement and humiliation, with the reiterated breathings of an ardent but peaceful affection, and with silence full of the most profound respect, you must await the return of the Beloved. Thus only you will demonstrate that it is Himself alone, and His good pleasure, that you seek; and not the selfish delights of your sensations.
–Jeanne Guyon (1648-1717)
God dwells within…
God dwells within you, and there you should dwell with Him.
–Saint Teresa of Avila (1515-1582)
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