God wishes you to have recourse to Him and to make Him the confidant of all your trouble… Do not withdraw yourself from His hands, however painful His remedies may be. Ask Him not to do your will in what He does, but to do His own.
–Saint John of Avila (1500-1569)
Nothing whatever should be done or left undone without leave being first asked of God.
–Saint Louis de Blois (1506-1566)
The soul must be ready to give up willingly all delight that may flow from spiritual exercises.
–Saint Louis de Blois (1506-1566)
You induce yourself to reverence by admiring God’s immensity and beholding your smallness.
–Saint Bonaventure (1221-1274)
Lose yourself wholly;
and the more you lose,
the more you will find. –Saint Catherine of Siena (1347-1380)
You, O eternal Trinity, are a deep sea,
into which the more I enter the more I find,
and the more I find the more I seek.
The soul cannot be satiated in your abyss,
for she continually hungers after you, the eternal Trinity,
desiring to see you with the light of your light.
As the heart desires the springs of living water,
so my soul desires to leave the prison of this dark body
and see you in truth.
–Saint Catherine of Siena (1347-1380)
