Carmelite wisdom to encourage & inspire
The more wounded the lover, the healthier the lover is, and the cure caused by love is to wound and inflict wound upon wound, to such an extent that the entire soul is dissolved into a wound of love.
The same difference lying between a habit and an act lies between the transformation in love and the flame of love.
Since I hope that I will soon have the happiness of making my First Communion, I will be even more well behaved...
A ray of sunlight shining on a smudgy window is unable to illumine that window completely and transform it into its own light...
The bride feels that this voice of the Bridegroom speaking within her is the end of evil and the beginning of good
John of the Cross, with his own experience, invites us to trust, to let ourselves be purified by God
I think that in Heaven my mission will be to draw souls
There is a Being who is Love and who wishes us to live in communion with Him
Carmelite spirituality is not contemplative and apostolic. It is apostolic because it is contemplative
If we obey the pope, we obey the Lord Jesus, according to his own words addressed to Peter and the other apostles
She is another Mary Magdalene whom nothing must distract from the One
Let your life be transformed
The humble and austere figure of this Carmelite emanates with his writings
Cleanse your soul of every desire, attachment, and ambition
All for you and nothing for me
I am keeping a rendez-vous with you in the Furnace of love
The huge, empty water jars in your heart will be filled
God takes what seems like the end of the road and turns it into a new horizon
Spiritual marriage is the highest state attainable in this life
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