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Offline Gray2023

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Re: Catholic Quotes on Mortification
« Reply #20 on: March 20, 2026, 03:08:10 PM »
Do not weary thyself in vain; for thou wilt never succeed in possessing true spiritual sweetness and satisfaction, unless thou first deny all thy desires.----St. John of the Cross
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Offline Maria Dolorosa

Re: Catholic Quotes on Mortification
« Reply #21 on: March 20, 2026, 03:38:41 PM »
Quote from: Gray2023 on March 20, 2026, 03:08:10 PM
Do not weary thyself in vain; for thou wilt never succeed in possessing true spiritual sweetness and satisfaction, unless thou first deny all thy desires.----St. John of the Cross
So lovely, thank you! This reminds me of a dear jewel of a phrase that the Carmelite Mother Geneviève of St. Teresa of Avila said to one of her novices: 

“My child, if you want to live very united to Our Lord and always in peace, have neither desire nor fear."

Mother Geneviève was the foundress of the Carmel of Lisieux, the Carmel of the Little Flower, St. Thérèse of the Child Jesus.
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Offline Gray2023

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Re: Catholic Quotes on Mortification
« Reply #22 on: March 22, 2026, 05:53:39 AM »
If we do not pay great attention to mortifying our own will, there are many things that can take from us that holy liberty of spirit, which we seek in order to be able to mount freely towards our Creator, without being always weighed down with earth and lead. Besides, in a soul that belongs to itself, and is attached to its own will, there can never be solid virtue.----St. Teresa
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Offline Gray2023

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« Reply #23 on: March 23, 2026, 10:10:12 AM »
Make it your constant effort to mortify and trample underfoot your own will, to such a degree as not to satisfy it in anything, if it be possible. Be careful, therefore, to desire and rejoice that it may be often crossed; and when you see anyone oppose it either in temporal or spiritual things, follow his will rather than your own, if only his be good, even though your own be better. For, contending with another, by lessening your humility, tranquillity, and peace, will always inflict upon you a loss greater than the advantage brought by any exercise of virtue performed through your own will, in opposition to another's.----St. Vincent Ferrer
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« Reply #24 on: March 23, 2026, 05:22:01 PM »
"Never suffer pride to reign in thy mind, or in thy words: for from it all perdition took its beginning.” — Tobias 4:14 (Douay-Rheims)
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