Carmelite Quotes

“This living in the presence of God, this placing himself before the face of God, is a characteristic which the […]

“To what degree of contemplation Elias was raised on Horeb, is an academic question. There are some who say he

“When Elias was being taken away from the earth in a fiery chariot, Eliseus, his faithful disciple, begged of him

“However, the double spirit of the prophet is spoken of in a third sense as the harmonious union of the

“Another sense (of the double spirit of Elias) is given to this double spirit: namely, the marvelous mixture of contemplative

“The first (of the three-fold sense of the double spirit of Elias) is the double portion of the inheritance of

“Also, we may mention here an old manuscript, the Institutio Primorum Monachorum, which contains the oldest tradition of the Order.

“When Europe was full of the battle cry of the Crusaders, ‘God wills it,’ and the Crusaders set out to

“The memory of the great spiritual warfare of Elias still clings to (Carmel). It was here he gathered together all

“Carmel is the natural retreat of the contemplative, and it is not unfitting that on its slopes should stand the