Quote Basket

Print this list; Cut each one seperately; Fold each one; & put it into a basket; Take to your Community & before you leave for the day; Pass the Basket around & let everyone select a Quote.

Each person can meditate on that quote until the next meeting...

(Nun's can meditate on 1 quote per day or week)

"Behold the handmaid of the Lord;

be it done unto me according to your word."
- Our Lady, Queen of Mount Carmel

"I made the resolution never to consider whether

the things commanded me appeared useful or not...
 it is love alone that counts.
Forget about whether something is needed or useful;
see it (the demand, rule, obligation, etc.) as a whim of Jesus."
- St Therese of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face

It is not so essential to think much as to love much.

- St Teresa of Jesus, OCD

Mine are the heavens and mine is the earth; mine are the people, the righteous are mine and mine are the sinners; the angels are mine and the Mother of God, and all things are mine; and God Himself is mine and for me, for Christ is mine and all for me. What then do you ask for and seek, my soul? Yours is all this, and it is all for you.

- St. John of the Cross - OCD
(from Prayer of a Soul Taken in Love)

How happy I am to see myself imperfect and be in need of God's mercy.

- St Therese of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face, OCD

The more lofty the degree of loving union to which God destines the soul, so much more profound and persistent must be its purification.

- St Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, OCD
(Edith Stein, Science of the Cross 77)

To be taken with love for a soul, God does not

look on its greatness, but the greatness of its humility.
- St John of the Cross, OCD

Always remember to love your neighbor; always prefer the one who tries your patience, who test your virtue, because with her you can always merit: suffering is Love; the Law is Love.
- Bl Mary of Jesus Crucified "The Little Arab"

It is certain that the love of God does not consist in

experiencing sweetness or tenderness of heart
but in truly serving God in Justice, strength and humility.

- St Teresa of Jesus, OCD

We can never have too much confidence in the

good God who is so powerful and so merciful.
We obtain from him as much as we hope for.
- St Therese of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face, OCD

I abyss myself in His magnificence and His

wisdom but when I ponder His goodness,
my heart can say nothing - I can only Adore.
- St Teresa of Jesus of the Andes, OCD

I desire to suffer always and not to die.

I should add: this is not my will, it is my inclination.
It is sweet to think of Jesus; but it is sweeter to do His will.
- Bl Mary of Jesus Crucified "The Little Arab"

Trials are nothing else but the forge that

purifies the soul of all its imperfections.
- St Mary Magdalen de'Pazzi, OCD

God Himself teachs us to go foward with

our hand in His by means of the Church's liturgy.
- St Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, OCD (Edith Stein)

It is not the soul that makes the progress,

but it is Christ, who carries her as a child is carried.
- Bl Mary of Jesus of Toledo, OCD

Wisdom enters through love, silence, and mortification.

It is great wisdom to know how to be
silent and to look at neither the remarks,
nor the deeds, nor the lives of others.
- St John of the Cross, OCD

Look for Christ Our Lord in everyone and

you will then have respect and reverence for all.
- St Teresa of Jesus, OCD

God desires the smallest degree of purity

of conscience in you more than all the works you can perform.
- St. John of the Cross, OCD

One cannot desire freedom from the Cross

when one is especially chosen for the Cross.
- St Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, OCD (Edith Stein)

For my heart is always with Him, day and night

it thinks unceasingly of its heavenly and divine Friend,
to whom it wants to prove its affection.
Also within it arises this desire:
not to die, but to suffer long, to suffer for God,
to give Him its life while praying for poor sinners.
- Bl Elisabeth of the Trinity, OCD

A soul enkindled with love is a gentle, meek, humble, and patient soul.

- St John of the Cross, OCD

You know that our Lord does not look at

the greatness or difficulty of our action,
but at the love with which you do it.
What, then, have you to fear?
- St Therese of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face, OCD

The proud person is like a grain of wheat thrown into water:

it swells, it gets big. Expose that grain to the fire:
it dries up, it burns. The humble soul is like a grain
of wheat thrown into the earth: it descends,
it hides itself, it disappears, it dies; but to revive in heaven.
- Bl Mary of Jesus Crucified "The Little Arab"

Prayer is a cry of gratitude and love,

in the midst of trial as well as in joy.
- St Therese of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face, OCD

You will be consoled according to the greatness

of your sorrow and affliction; the greater
the suffering, the greater will be the reward.
- St Mary Magdalen de'Pazzi, OCD

So dearly does His Majesty love us that He will

reward our love for our neighbor by increasing the love,
which we bear to Himself, and that in a thousand ways.
- St Teresa of Jesus, OCD

What we need most in order to make progress is to be

silent before this great God with our appetite and with
our tongue, for the language he best hears is silent love.
- St John of the Cross, OCD

The goal of all our undertakings should be not so much a task

perfectly completed as the accomplishment of the will of God.
- St Therese of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face, OCD

Oh my God, You have surpassed all my expectations.

- St Therese of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face, OCD

Faith; is not believing God is real;

Faith is the Peace which comes from knowing God IS on your side.
- Christina Whale, OCDS

You have a Beautiful Life, because God designed it! Believe in yourself & Enjoy what God has given you! There is a special plan for your life, which the Lord has designed especially for you! Live it, because what you make of your life is your gift back to God...

- Christina Whale, OCDS

Whatever did not fit in with my plan did lie within the plan of God.

I have an ever deeper and firmer belief that nothing
is merely an accident when seen in the light of God,
that my whole life down to the smallest details has been
marked out for me in the plan of Divine Providence
and has a completely coherent meaning in
God's all-seeing eyes. And so I am beginning to rejoice
in the light of glory wherein this meaning will be unveiled to me.
- Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross

God is there in these moments of rest and can

give us in a single instant exactly what we need.
Then the rest of the day can take its course,
under the same effort and strain, perhaps, but in peace.
And when night comes, and you look back over the day
and see how fragmentary everything has been,
and how much you planned that has gone undone,
and all the rasons you have to be embarrassed and ashamed:
just take everything exactly as it is,
put it in God’s hands and leave it with Him.
Then you will be able to rest in Him really rest
and start the next day as a new life.
- St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross

Learn from Saint Thérèse to depend on God alone and serve Him with a wholly pure and detached heart. Then, like her, you will be able to say ‘I do not regret that I have given myself up to Love’.

- Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross

O my God, fill my soul with holy joy, courage and strength to serve You. Enkindle Your love in me and then walk with me along the next stretch of road before me. I do not see very far ahead, but when I have arrived where the horizon now closes down, a new prospect will prospect will open before me, and I shall meet it with peace.

- Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross

Everything passes here on earth. What are we?
Nothing but dust, nothingness,
and God is so great, so beautiful,
so lovable and He is not loved.

- Blessed Mary of Jesus Crucified

Holy Spirit, inspire me. Love of God; consume me. Along the true road, lead me. Mary, my good mother; look down upon me. With Jesus bless me; from all evil, all illusion, all danger, preserve me.

- Blessed Mary of Jesus Crucified

Always remember to love your neighbor; always prefer the one who tries your patience, who test your virtue, because with her you can always merit: suffering is Love; the Law is Love.

- Blessed Mary of Jesus Crucified

I desire to suffer always and not to die.
I should add: this is not my will, it is my inclination.
It is sweet to think of Jesus;
but it is sweeter to do His will.

- Blessed Mary of Jesus Crucified

The proud person is like a grain of wheat thrown into water: it swells, it gets big. Expose that grain to the fire: it dries up, it burns. The humble soul is like a grain of wheat thrown into the earth: it descends, it hides itself, it disappears, it dies; but to revive in heaven.

- Blessed Mary of Jesus Crucified

Observance of the rule is of more value than all extraordinary states, more than the stigmata and the gift of miracles.

- Blessed Mary of Jesus Crucified

JESUS LOVES YOU!! This I know,
For the Bible tells me so!
Love Him back for by treating others the way
you would want them to treat you! Be Honest, Don’t Lie!
If you don’t have anything Nice to say about someone,
don’t say anything at all…

- Christina Whale, OCDS

Going to Carmelite Community Meetings,
doesn’t make you a Carmelite.
Just like, if you spend all day in the garage,
it won’t make me a Car!
It takes effort to be a Carmelite!

- Christina Whale, OCDS

Peace Be With You!