Carmelite Quotes

“Some pages further on, she writes: ‘Return to our beautiful and magnificent castle and consider in what manner we may […]

“St. Teresa informs her untrained sisters of this image in the simplest way: ‘Let us regard our souls as a

“In her diamond castle of the soul, St. Teresa places the sun as a source of light in the inmost

“Here also there is a marvelous harmony between nature and supernature, between the life of grace and the mystic, superabundant

“So the mystical life is a methodical way, an accommodation of the faculties of the soul to the object of

St. Teresa paints the mystical life as something which develops in the soul, according to the latter’s natural ability, as

“Recollection and quiet, slumber and spiritual sleep, passage and death, resurrection and new life infused by God – these are

“In the sixth mansion, the soul is altogether immersed in the contemplation and the enjoyment of the object of its

“In the sixth mansion, the soul is altogether immersed in the contemplation and the enjoyment of the object of its

“In the fifth mansion, the faculties of the soul dare, as it were, inaccessible to the impressions other things should