The quotes posted to social media (Facebook, Instagram, X) this past week included one for the feast day of John of Avila, alongside a few on the basic foundations of prayer.

The soul whom God has touched interiorly can no longer find rest in anything that is not God. — Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein)

The way I see things, you need an ideal… which brings you out of yourself and takes you beyond. But, you see, there is only one, and it is him, the One True Ideal! … He fascinates, he attracts, he pulls you in, and under his regard, the horizon [of life] becomes so beautiful, so vast, so luminous. — Saint Elizabeth of the Trinity

Knowledge attained in prayer exceeds that attained through our own reasoning and conjectures. — Saint John of Avila

We ask daily bread for our bodies and for our souls; pardon for our sins, in return for the mercy we show toward those who have offended us; we ask our heavenly Father to guard us from the dangers of temptation and for him to deliver us from evil. He will do this because He loves us and because He is the source of all good. And without this what could we offer him? The gifts that children make wholeheartedly to their father are always drawn in some measure from that father’s wealth. — Raïssa Maritain