CREATION AND CREATURES
If there is anyone who is not enlightened by this sublime magnificence of created things, he is blind. If there is anyone who, seeing all these works of God, does not praise Him, he is dumb; if there is anyone who, from so many signs, cannot perceive God, that man is foolish.
- St. Bonaventure
In everything, whether it is a thing sensed or a thing known, God Himself is hidden within.
- St. Bonaventure
God passes through the thicket of the world, and wherever His glance falls He turns all things to beauty.
- St. John of the Cross
THE CROSS
Whoever does not seek the cross of Christ doesn't seek the glory of Christ.
- St. John of the Cross
If God gives you an abundant harvest of trials, it is a sign of great holiness which He desires you to attain. Do you want to become a great saint? Ask God to send you many sufferings. The flame of Divine Love never rises higher than when fed with the wood of the Cross, which the infinite charity of the Savior used to finish His sacrifice. All the pleasures of the world are nothing compared with the sweetness found in the gall and vinegar offered to Jesus Christ. That is, hard and painful things endured for Jesus Christ and with Jesus Christ.
- Saint Ignatius of Loyola
I do not desire to die soon, because in Heaven there is no suffering. I desire to live a long time because I yearn to suffer much for the love of my Spouse.
- St. Mary Magdalen de'Pazzi
You will be consoled according to the greatness of your sorrow and affliction; the greater the suffering, the greater will be the reward.
- St. Mary Magdalen de'Pazzi
For my heart is always with Him, day and night it thinks unceasingly of its heavenly and divine Friend, to whom it wants to prove its affection. Also within it arises this desire: not to die, but to suffer long, to suffer for God, to give Him its life while
- Bl. Elizabeth of the Trinity
Always remember to love your neighbor; always prefer the one who tries your patience, who test your virtue, because with her you can always merit: suffering is Love; the Law is Love.
- Bl. Mary of Jesus Crucified "The Little Arab"
I desire to suffer always and not to die. I should add: this is not my will, it is my inclination. It is sweet to think of Jesus; but it is sweeter to do His will.
- Bl. Mary of Jesus Crucified "The Little Arab"
If God sends you many sufferings, it is a sign that He has great plans for you and certainly wants to make you a saint.
- St. Ignatius Loyola
The road is narrow. He who wishes to travel it more easily must cast off all things and use the cross as his cane. In other words, he must be truly resolved to suffer willingly for the love of God in all things.
- St. John of the Cross
One must not think that a person who is suffering is not praying. He is offering up his sufferings to God, and many a time he is praying much more truly than one who goes away by himself and meditates his head off, and, if he has squeezed out a few tears, thinks that is
- St. Teresa of Avila
Oh my good God, how gentle You
are! How sweet You are! Oh dear cross, I embrace you and press you to
my heart!
- St. Paul of the Cross
We ought to glory in nothing other than the Cross of our
Lord Jesus Christ. You are blessed and don't know it. You have Jesus
Crucified with you.
- St. Paul of the Cross
In the heart of Jesus, which was pierced, the kingdom of
heaven and the land of earth are bound together. Here is for us the
- St. Edith Stein (Teresa
Benedicta of the Cross)
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