Love and trust…
If we would not offend God, there are two points on which we must be particularly careful one is, that we should love His goodness, and the second is, that we should trust in His mercy.
–Saint John of Avila (1500 – 1569)
Work at progress in spiritual life…
Apply yourself to work at your own progress in the spiritual life with all the diligence proper for accomplishing God s designs.
–Saint John of Avila (1500 – 1569)
The Eucharistic bread…
When we see that Savior before our eyes of faith as the Scriptures portray him, then our desire to receive him in the bread of life increases. The eucharistic bread, on the other hand, awakens our desire to get to know the Lord in the written word more and more deeply and strengthens our spirit to get a better understanding.
–Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (1891-1942)
Prolonged purification…
The higher the degree of union of love to which God desires to lead them, the more intense and prolonged will the purification be.
–Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (1891-1942)
It is God’s way…
God is more anxious to bestow His blessings on us than we are to receive them. For it is not God’s way that great blessings should descend without the sacrifice first of great sufferings.
— Saint Augustine (354-430)
Put our confidence…
We must do all that lies in our power; we must give without counting the cost; we must constantly renounce ourselves. In one word, we must prove our love by all the good works we can perform; but, since all that we can do is very little, it is of the greatest importance that we put our confidence in Him who alone sanctifies those works and that we recognize that we are indeed useless servants, hoping that the good Lord will give us through grace all that we desire.
–Saint Therese of Lisieux (1873-1897)
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