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We write what we want to know, just as we teach what we wish to understand.

We write what we want to know, just as we teach what we wish to understand.

I have found my place in the Church. In the heart of the Church I shall be love. Thus I shall be everything; and this my dream will be realized. (Story of a Soul 194)

I have found my place in the Church. In the heart of the Church I shall be love. Thus I shall be everything; and this my dream will be realized. (Story of a Soul 194)

“But life is not sad,” Therese insisted. “If you had said ‘the exile is sad,’ I could understand. People make the mistake of calling what must come to an end ‘life,’ but it is only to heavenly things, to what will never end, that one should really apply the word. And in this sense, life is not sad; it is gay, very gay.” (Last Conversations 265)

The important thing is not to think much but to love much; and so do that which best stirs you to love.
- St. Teresa of Avila, Interior Castle

Let nothing upset you,
Let nothing frighten you.
Everything is changing;
God alone is changeless.
Patience attains the goal.
Who has God lacks nothing;
God alone fills all her needs.
- The “Bookmark Prayer” of St. Teresa of Avila

“I’ve been abysmally wrong, and I grieve for that. I need to grieve for that.... But my world is bright, for I am surrounded and embraced now by limitless love. The past is over. I will go where love leads me.” -St. Catherine of Genoa

“My daughter... Never say I will or I will not. Never say mine, but always ours. Never excuse yourself, but always accuse yourself.”

Your neighbors are your channel through which all of your virtues come to birth.

Your neighbors are your channel through which all of your virtues come to birth.

Now when one of the demons told her they would persecute her unto death if she did not give in, she laughed and said they could do as they liked; she might even find them entertaining! (St. Catherine of Siena)