30 quotes found
“Love turns work into rest.”
“Prayer and comfortable living are incompatible.”
“God withholds Himself from no one who perseveres.”
“The closer one approaches to God, the simpler one becomes.”
“All the trials we endure cannot be compared to these interior battles.”
“If this is how you treat your friends, no wonder you have so many enemies.”
“I am quite sure I am more afraid of people who are themselves terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.”
“Vivo sin vivir en m... muero porque no muero. (I live without really being alive... I die because I am not dying.)”
“Let nothing disturb you,Let nothing frighten you,All things are passing away:God never changes.Patience obtains all things.Whoever has God lacks nothing;God alone suffices.”
“But, as I know that strength arising from obedience has a way of simplifying things which seem impossible, my will very gladly resolves to attempt this task although the prospect seems to cause my ...”
“In order that love be fully satisfied, It is necessary that It lower Itself and that It lower Itself to nothingness and transform this nothingness into fire.”
“It is of great importance, when we begin to practise prayer, not to let ourselves be frightened by our own thoughts.”
“Untilled ground, however rich, will bring forth thistles and thorns; so also the mind of man.”
“...aconsejara yo a los que tienen oracin, en especial al principio, procuren amistad y trato con otras personas que traten de lo mismo. Es cosa importantsima, aunque no sea sino ayudarse unos a otr...”
“The devil frequently fills our thoughts with great schemes, so that instead of putting our hands to what work we can do to serve our Lord, we may rest satisfied with wishing to perform impossibilit...”
“...Since in the centre of the soul there is a mansion reserved for God Himself...”
“I used unexpectedly to experience a consciousness of the presence of God, or such a kind that I could not possibly doubt that He was within me or that I was wholly engulfed in Him. This was in no s...”
“O infinite goodness of my God! It is thus that I seem to see both myself and Thee. O Joy of the angels, how I long, when I think of this, to be wholly consumed in love for Thee! How true it is that...”
“Reflect carefully on this, for it is so important that I can hardly lay too much stress on it. Fix your eyes on the Crucified and nothing else will be of much importance to you.”
“. . . you must not build upon foundations of prayer and contemplation alone, for, unless you strive after the virtues and practice them, you will never grow to be more than dwarfs.”
