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Let nothing disturb you, let nothing frighten you. All things are passing. God never changes. Patience obtains all things. Whoever has God lacks nothing; God alone suffices. – St. Teresa of Avila  

I have tried to live the gospel and to follow the monastic life each day. I have tried to spend time with God in thought and prayer and reading. God and I have been friends, I might even say, lovers. We live together. My life is in him and he is in my life. It…

Though Christ called himself “the way,” in another sense he’s our end, our destination. Don’t settle down somewhere on the way so that you never come to the end. Whatever else you come to on life’s journey, pass on by it, until you come to the end, Christ himself. Some seek money. Don’t let it…

We become transfigured by becoming little, humble, poor, dependent, powerless. How do we empty ourselves? How do we become little? By accepting all the sufferings that God permits to come into our lives. By seeking to serve others rather than to be served. By taking the last place. By never seeking recognition or applause.By making…

To make possible true inner silence, practice silence of the eyes – by seeking always the beauty and goodness of God everywhere, closing them to the faults of others and to all that is sinful and disturbing to the soul; silence of the ears – by listening always to the voice of God and to…

Christ comes to us full of perfect knowledge and unlimited love. He knows exactly what we are, and he knows exactly what our life will be . . . He knows all our mistakes and all our sins; he knows all our misfortunes and all our miseries. He knows all these things in advance, but…

I have that assurance God gave to St. Paul and he passed on to us: My grace is sufficient for you. And what is grace? Participation in the divine life. And that participation means for me, light and understanding and conviction, of course only occasionally, but strong enough to carry me along, to lift me…

Our present life is given to us only to gain the eternal one and if we don’t think about it, we build our affections on what belongs to this world, where our life is transitory. When we have to leave it, we are afraid and become agitated. Believe me, to live happily in this pilgrimage,…

In all trouble, you should seek God. . . .God can only relieve your troubles if you in your anxiety cling to Him. Trouble should not really be thought of as this incident or that in particular, for our whole life on earth involves trouble; and through the troubles of our earthly pilgrimage we find…

The kingdom of God is where man is in a state of grace and all things move in divine order. Human needs are met by God’s abundance, human limitations are dissolved by God’s power, human rashness is tamed by God’s discipline – all this is part of the kingdom of God. Contact with God is…