Charlene

“I wanted to live, but saw clearly that I was not living - but rather wrestling with the shadow of death. There was no one to give me life, and I was not able to take it.”
― St Teresa Of Avila

“What Thérèse is proposing is more difficult than it seems, for when we are filled with guilt and a sense of our own wretchedness, it is hard to believe in the mercy of God, for guilt tends to project upon the face of God a stern grimace. Our sins do not alter God’s merciful love toward us; they simply make it more difficult for us to believe in it.”
― Marc Foley, Story of a Soul The Autobiography of St. Thérèse of Lisieux Study Edition

“Your intuitive powers increase when you are with plants because your mind is silenced and you become more aware in the present moment”
― Sanchita Pandey, Lessons from My Garden

“In prayer, like the stars before the rising sun, all the burdens of our autonomous self disperse before the “piercing presence” of God. God unclothes, undoes us, “prunes away every branch that does not bear fruit.” He even takes God away from us”
― James Finley, Merton's Palace of Nowhere