Believe me - to write books of piety, to compose sublime poems, all this is not worth as much as the smallest act of renunciation. St. Therese of Lisieux

And here lies the remarkable delight of this awakening: The soul knows creatures through God and not God through creatures. St. John of the Cross

For, in the end, people must always live with fear until you give them true peace and bring them there where that peace will be unending. St. Teresa of Avila

I know Jesus would rather see you stumbling along by night over a rocky path, than in daylight over a path covered in flowers, because the flowers might hold you back. St. Therese of Lisieux

And how delicately you captivate me and arouse my affections toward you in the sweet breathing you produce in this awakening. St. John of the Cross

Even though in those other dwelling places there is much tumult and there are many poisonous creatures and noise is heard, no one enters that center dwelling place and makes the soul leave. St. Teresa of Avila

The only place not liable to envy is the last place. In this last place there is no vanity or affliction of spirit. St. Therese of Lisieux

In contemplation God teaches the soul very quietly and secretly, without its knowing how, without the sound of words, and without the help of any bodily or spiritual faculty, in silence and quietude, in darkness to all sensory and natural things. St. John of the Cross

There are so many and such delicate things in the interior that it would be boldness on my part to set out to explain them. St. Teresa of Avila

Because of its obscurity, she calls contemplation night.  St. John of the Cross