Carmelites are... (51)
Carmelite spirituality is focused on attention to one’s relationship with Jesus.
Carmelite spirituality is characterised by an intense thirst for an immediate and direct experience of God.
Carmelite spirituality enables God-seekers to discover new heights and depths in their own hearts and in the God who calls and loves them.
God gave us faculties for our use; each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us try to charm them to sleep, but permit them to do their work until divinely called to something higher.
(St. Teresa of Jesus)
We shall never learn to know ourselves except by endeavoring to know God
Written byWe shall never learn to know ourselves except by endeavoring to know God; for, beholding His greatness we realize our own littleness; His purity shows us our foulness; and by meditating upon His humility we find how very far we are from being humble.
(St. Teresa of Jesus)
It is love alone that gives worth to all things.
(St. Teresa of Jesus)
Look for CHRIST OUR LORD in every one and you will then have respect and reverence for all ( St. Teresa of Jesus )
Written byLook for CHRIST OUR LORD in every one and you will then have respect and reverence for all.
( St. Teresa of Jesus )
The earliest Carmelites were to imitate the Jesus who was in the habit of going aside to pray, to be alone with God, his Abba.
Keith J. Egan
My mission to make God loved will begin after my death. I will spend my heaven doing good on earth. I will send a shower of roses.
(St.Therese of Lisieux)
God loves you today as He loved you yesterday and will love you tomorrow.
Written byGod loves you today
as He loved you yesterday
and will love you tomorrow.
Elizabeth of the Trinity
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Prayer deepens our intimacy with God and transforms us into our truest self – humbling us and creating us anew.
(St. Mary Magdalen de’ Pazzi)
Prayer is a way to arrive at perfection, because in prayer God teachers the soul, and through prayer the soul detaches itself from created things and unites itself to God.
St. Mary Magdalen de’ Pazzi.
We are called to walk together as brothers and to serve the people in whose midst we live.
(Ratio)
At last! I have found my vocation! In the heart of the Church--my Mother--I will be love! And all my dreams shall be realized!
(St. Therese of the Child Jesus)
