QUOTATIONS FROM MOTHER FRANCES STREITEL
"Humanity conceals two jewels in its midst and so seldom appreciates their value - they are the poor and the sick."
"May the poor always enjoy the friendship of our Sisters."
"Prayer and work must go hand in hand and like twin sisters, strive to remedy the spiritual and social misery of [humankind]."
"God wants us entirely, and if He sees our determination in His service and our constancy in the good we have begun...He will equip us with extraordinary strength of grace."
"Let us stand under the cross with the Sorrowful Mother. Let us look up to the Crucified with trusting faith, and we will experience that in the cross is salvation."
"Our life is an alternation of cares and work, joys and sorrows, and through it all there appears the adorable will of God."
"The book from which I draw my spiritual exercise is the Cross. With, through, and in the same I shall learn what is so necessary for my dying to self..."
"...[I] was approaching the Divine Heart, asking why I was called to Carmel, then I received the answer: "To unite the active life with the contemplative."
"One who is truly poor is also humble and obedient."
"The ways of the Lord are wonderful!"
"It is a grace to be able to be poor in will."
"The older one gets, the clearer it becomes that our present existence can only be transitory, a time of trial or preparation for a better life."
"Since I have learned to pray again like a child, I am at peace with myself and with my fellow Sisters."
"Only the power of grace could teach me to ask in order to receive."
