I am afraid that if we begin to put our trust in human help, some of our Divine help will fail us.
TERESA OF AVILAAll times are dangerous times.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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Teach by works more than words.
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Let us remember that within us there is a palace of immense magnificence.
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All blessings come to us through our Lord. He will teach us, for in beholding His life we find that He is the best example.
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About the injunction of the Apostle Paul that women should keep silent in church? Don’t go by one text only.
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The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.
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But the fact is, things always seem to come slowly when you are longing for them.
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If we practice love of neighbor with great perfection, we will have done everything.
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Do you know when people really become spiritual? It is when they become the slaves of God and are branded with His sign, which is the sign of the Cross, in token that they have given Him their freedom.
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Mental prayer is nothing else but being on terms of friendship with God, frequently conversing in secret with Him.
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Union is as if in a room there were two large windows through which the light streamed in; it enters in different places but it all becomes one.
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The life of the spirit is not our life, but the life of God within us.
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There is no affliction, trial, or labor difficult to endure, when we consider the torments and sufferings which Our Lord Jesus Christ endured for us.
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Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people’s, if we are always criticizing trivial actions – which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives.
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One always goes on as one begins.
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Souls who do not practice prayer are like people whose limbs are paralyzed.
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