The proud person is like a grain of wheat thrown into water: it swells, it gets big. Expose that grain to the fire: it dries up, it burns. The humble soul is like a grain of wheat thrown into the earth: it descends, it hides itself, it disappears, it dies; but to revive in heaven. Bl Mary of Jesus Crucified

You know that our Lord does not look at the greatness or difficulty of our action, but at the love with which you do it. What, then, have you to fear? St Therese of Lisieux

A soul enkindled with love is a gentle, meek, humble, and patient soul. St John of the Cross

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. Bl Elizabeth of the Trinity

One cannot desire freedom from the Cross when one is especially chosen for the Cross. St Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein)

God desires the smallest degree of purity of conscience in you more than all the works you can perform. St John of the Cross

Look for Christ Our Lord in everyone and you will then have respect and reverence for all.St Teresa of Avila

Wisdom enters through love, silence, and mortification. It is great wisdom to know how to be silent and to look at neither the remarks, nor the deeds, nor the lives of others. St John of the Cross

We can never have too much confidence in the good God who is so powerful and so merciful. We obtain from him as much as we hope for. St Therese of Lisieux

I am glad to follow my Spouse for Himself, and not for His gifts. He is so beautiful, so entrancing -- even when He is silent and hides Himself from me.St. Therese of Lisieux