Top 7 Quotes & Sayings by Elizabeth of the Trinity

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a French writer Elizabeth of the Trinity.
Last updated on April 18, 2025.
Elizabeth of the Trinity

Elizabeth of the Trinity, born Élisabeth Catez, was a French Discalced Carmelite professed religious, a mystic, and a spiritual writer. She was known for the depth of her spiritual growth as a Carmelite as well as bleak periods in which her religious calling was perceived to be unsure according to those around her; she however was acknowledged for her persistence in pursuing the will of God and in devoting herself to the charism of the Carmelites.

You will never be commonplace if you are vigilant in love.
I have found heaven on earth, since heaven is God, and God is in my soul.
During painful times, when you feel a terrible void, think how the capacity of your soul is being enlarged so that it can receive God- becoming as it were, infinite as God is infinite.
By our actions we tell Him of our love. — © Elizabeth of the Trinity
By our actions we tell Him of our love.
I go to him as a baby goes to his mother so that he can fill me and invade all and take me in his arms.
Let us ask God to make us true in our love, to make us sacrificial beings, for it seems to me that sacrifice is only love put into action.
For my heart is always with Him, day and night it thinks unceasingly of its heavenly and divine Friend, to whom it wants to prove its affection. Also within it arises this desire: not to die, but to suffer long, to suffer for God, to give Him its life while praying for poor sinners.
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