Walk very simply…
Walk very simply along the way our Lord shows you and don’t worry.
–Saint Francis de Sales (1567-1622)
We retire into God…
By interior recollection we retire into God, or draw God within ourselves. But when and where can we have recourse to it? At all times, and in all places.
–Saint Francis de Sales (1567-1622)
Making good Communions…
Making really good Communions often is the best way to make sure you will die happy and save your soul.
–Saint John Bosco (1815-1888)
Make rapid progress…
The only way to make rapid progress along the path of divine love is to remain very little and to put all our trust in Almighty God. That is what I have done.
–Saint Therese of Lisieux (1873-1897)
Sorrow and darkness…
There is the true picture of our souls. Often we go down into the fertile valleys where our heart loves to find its nourishment. And the vast fields of Holy Scripture, which have so often opened to yield us richest treasures, now seem but an arid and waterless waste. We no longer even know where we stand. In place of peace and light, all is sorrow and darkness.
–Saint Therese of Lisieux (1873-1897)
Complete spiritual dryness…
I was far from getting any consolation. Instead, I suffered complete spiritual dryness, almost as if I were quite forsaken… But that doesn’t upset me. It fills me with great joy. It’s true that I am a long way from being a saint, and this attitude of mine proves it. Instead of the lighting in my spiritual aridity, I have to blame my lack of faith and fervor for it. I should be distressed that I drop off the sleep during my prayers and during my thanksgiving after Communion. But I don’t feel at all distressed. I know that children are just as dear to their parents whether they are asleep or awake and I know that doctors put their patients to sleep before they operate. So I just think that God “knows our frame; remembers that we are dust.”
–Saint Therese of Lisieux (1873-1897)
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