March 9
“How often have I thought that I may owe all the graces I’ve received to the prayers of a person who begged them from God for me, and whom I shall know only in heaven.”
-St. Thérèse of Lisieux
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State of grace
November 26
“The devil only tempts those souls that wish to abandon sin and those that are in a state of grace. The others belong to him; he has no need to tempt them.”
-St. John Vianney
The soul aglow with love
November 25
“Pay the greatest attention to this: that your heart be ever glowing with love. Boiling water does not attract flies, lukewarm water does. In the same way the devil with all his impure thoughts shuns and keeps his distance from the soul aglow with love for God…”
-Blessed Baptista Varano
Generosity of spirit
November 23
“Far from being like to those great souls who from their childhood practice all sorts of macerations, I made my mortification consist solely in the breaking of my will, restraining a hasty word, rendering little services to those around me without making anything of it, and a thousand other things of this kind.”
-Saint Thérèse of Lisieux
Accepting our failures
April 1
“When we accept our disappointment at our failures, God immediately returns to us.”
-St. Thérèse of Lisieux
Behave as a gallant soldier
October 21
“Each time that my enemy would provoke me to combat, I behave as a gallant soldier.”
– St. Thérèse of Lisieux
The good God has given me
September 30
“Whatever the good God has given me has always pleased me, even the gifts which have appeared to me less good and less beautiful than those received by others.”
~St. Therese of Lisieux
Begin a new life
July 22
“I beg you, O my Divine Bridegroom, to be the Restorer of my soul…
Tomorrow, with the help of your grace, I will begin a new life in which each moment will be an act of love and renunciation.”
-St. Therese of Lisieux