"Knowledge will make you strong as death. Love Jesus generously. Love Him trustfully, without looking back, and without fear. Give yourself fully to Jesus - He will use you to accomplish great things on the condition that you believe much more in His love than in your weakness. Believe in Him - trust in Him with blind and absolute confidence because He is Jesus. Believe that Jesus alone is life - and that sanctity is nothing but Jesus living intimately in you; then His hand will be free with you. Give yourself unswervingly, conforming yourself in all things to His holy will which is made known to you through your superior.
Love Jesus with a big heart. Serve Jesus with joy and gladness of spirit, casting aside and forgetting all that troubles and worries you. To be able to do all these, pray lovingly like children, with an earnest desire to love much and make loved the love that is not loved...
Am I convinced of Christ's love for me and mine for Him? This conviction is like a sunlight which makes the sap of life rise and the buds of sanctity bloom. This conviction is the rock on which sanctity is built. what must we do to get this conviction? We must know Jesus, love Jesus, serve Jesus. We know Him through prayers, meditations and spiritual duties. We love Him through holy Mass and the sacraments and through that intimate union of love.
What is our spiritual life? A love union with Jesus, in which the divine and the human give themselves completely to one another. All that Jesus asks of me is to give myself to Him in poverty and nothingness."
- Blessed Teresa of Calcutta
In Search of Me and Finding More of HIM
7 years ago
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