God, the Joy of My Life Quotes

“Whoever follows Him "will have the light of life.”
― Michael D. Griffin, God, The Joy of My Life: A Biography of Saint Teresa of the Andes With the Saint's Spiritual Diary

“St. John of the Cross: "Where there is no love, put love, and you will find love.”
― Michael D. Griffin, God, The Joy of My Life: A Biography of Saint Teresa of the Andes With the Saint's Spiritual Diary

“I should acquire humility by humiliating myself, considering myself a sinner and the least of all. When I see a defect in other persons, I should think of their good qualities and that those defects may be permitted by God to humiliate the person who has them, and in exchange may be interiorly very pleasing to God, while I have worse and still more defects than she has. I should see the little I’m worth in the sight of God and serve everyone as though I were a slave, since that is what I am through sin.”
― Michael D. Griffin, God, The Joy of My Life: A Biography of Saint Teresa of the Andes With the Saint's Spiritual Diary

“They live in unbridled pleasure; they offend Him, without thinking that each year they are closer to death.”
― Michael D. Griffin, God, The Joy of My Life: A Biography of Saint Teresa of the Andes With the Saint's Spiritual Diary

“Human hearts love one day but are indifferent the next. God alone doesn’t change.”
― Michael D. Griffin, God, The Joy of My Life: A Biography of Saint Teresa of the Andes With the Saint's Spiritual Diary

“My Jesus, I have now seen that everything in the world is vanity, that only one thing is necessary: to love You and serve You with fidelity, to resemble and make myself entirely like unto You.”
― Michael D. Griffin, God, The Joy of My Life: A Biography of Saint Teresa of the Andes With the Saint's Spiritual Diary

“There are three classes of souls: First, those who are in mortal sin, who are attracted by sensuality and live in this way. Second, those who live in grace and experience peace, interior consolations and desires to be good. Third, those who feel no interior consolation, but experience the impulses of grace and follow them and resist nature. This is the best state because we live in humility.”
― Michael D. Griffin, God, The Joy of My Life: A Biography of Saint Teresa of the Andes With the Saint's Spiritual Diary

“In comparison with the value of one soul, all the sacrifices we make are small in comparison.”
― Michael D. Griffin, God, The Joy of My Life: A Biography of Saint Teresa of the Andes With the Saint's Spiritual Diary

“To live always joyfully. God is infinite joy" (May 14, 1919). "When one loves, everything is joy. The cross doesn't weigh down. Martyrdom isn't felt. One lives more in heaven than on earth. The life of Carmel is to love. This is our vocation" (May, 1919).”
― Michael D. Griffin, God, The Joy of My Life: A Biography of Saint Teresa of the Andes With the Saint's Spiritual Diary

“The heavenly inhabitants are all blissfully joyful and will remain so eternally because they have the assurance that nothing will ever interfere with or separate them from their union with God, who is the source or fountain of love, joy and happiness.”
― Michael D. Griffin, God, The Joy of My Life: A Biography of Saint Teresa of the Andes With the Saint's Spiritual Diary

“Don't you feel terror in the presence of the infinite spaces that Pascal speaks of?" She replied: "Why should I feel afraid? Isn't this world the house of God? Instead of frightening me, they move me to take flight into my soul with the confidence of a creature of God.”
― Michael D. Griffin, God, The Joy of My Life: A Biography of Saint Teresa of the Andes With the Saint's Spiritual Diary

“To die is to be eternally immersed in Love.”
― Michael D. Griffin, God, The Joy of My Life: A Biography of Saint Teresa of the Andes With the Saint's Spiritual Diary

“Who can refuse the hand of the All Powerful One who abases Himself to the most unworthy of His creatures? How happy I am, my dear sister! I have been captured in the loving nets of the divine Fisherman. I would like to make you understand this happiness.”
― Michael D. Griffin, God, The Joy of My Life: A Biography of Saint Teresa of the Andes With the Saint's Spiritual Diary

“long for the day when I can go to Carmel to concern myself only with Him, to abase myself in Him and so to live His life alone: to love and suffer to save souls. Yes, I thirst for souls because I know that it is what my Jesus craves more than anything else. Oh, how I love Him!”
― Michael D. Griffin, God, The Joy of My Life: A Biography of Saint Teresa of the Andes With the Saint's Spiritual Diary

“There is a dark cloud that is hiding the Beloved of my heart and I long to plunge myself into His divine Being, but I am unable to do so." She experienced no consolation. Nor did that matter. What really counted was that her heavenly Bridegroom was with her still”
― Michael D. Griffin, God, The Joy of My Life: A Biography of Saint Teresa of the Andes With the Saint's Spiritual Diary

“Suffering pleases me for two reasons: because Jesus preferred suffering from his birth till his death on the cross. It must then be something very great since the All-Powerful One sought to suffer always. And suffering also pleases me because it is in the crucible of sorrow that souls are formed and because Jesus gives this gift to the souls He loves the most.”
― Michael D. Griffin, God, The Joy of My Life: A Biography of Saint Teresa of the Andes With the Saint's Spiritual Diary

“She says that Our Lord told her, "if you want to be like Me, then take up your cross with love and joy.”
― Michael D. Griffin, God, The Joy of My Life: A Biography of Saint Teresa of the Andes With the Saint's Spiritual Diary

“God made us without ourselves," to repeat the much-quoted saying of Saint Augustine, "but He cannot sanctify us without ourselves.”
― Michael D. Griffin, God, The Joy of My Life: A Biography of Saint Teresa of the Andes With the Saint's Spiritual Diary