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What a joy to remember that she is our Mother! Since she loves us and knows our weakness, what have we to fear?
Friendship is that virtue by which spirits are bound by ties of love and sweetness and out of many are made one.
As soon as I came to believe there was a God, I understood that I could not do otherwise than live only for him.
By the anxieties and worries of this life Satan tries to dull man's heart and make a dwelling for himself there.
About Jesus Christ and the Church, I simply know they're just one thing, and we shouldn't complicate the matter.
God loves me. I'm not here just to fill a place, just to be a number. He has chosen me for a purpose. I know it.
And if we can accept that a mother can kill her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another?
Many people (who go to her as volunteers) have found peace, joy and unity in their families by helping the poor.
I can do only one thing, like a little dog follow closely the Master's footsteps. Pray that I be a cheerful dog.
We may not be able to give much but we can always give the joy that springs in a heart that is in LOVE WITH GOD.
Men will become poor because they will not have a love for trees... If you don't love trees, you don't love God.
As gifts increase in you, let your humility grow, for you must consider that everything is given to you on loan.
The Lord our King will hold the door of His heart open for anyone who wants to enter for an audience at any time
It is true that God's power triumphs over everything, but humble and suffering prayer prevails over God Himself.
What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.
God, if you think, God you are. Dust if you think, dust you are. As you think, so you become. Think God, be God.
Let the wave of memory, the storm of desire, the fire of emotion pass through without affecting your equanimity.
There is no one who can change My course or affect My conduct to the slightest extent. I am the Master over all.
Woman is the gate of the devil, the road to iniquity, the sting of the scorpion, in a word, a dangerous species.
It is not a matter of thinking a great deal but of loving a great deal, so do whatever arouses you most to love.
I have always had this failing - that I cannot explain myself, as I have said, except at the cost of many words.
The great majority of men use their own short-sighted ideas as a yardstick for measuring the divine omnipotence.
The first step of humility is unhesitating obedience which comes naturally to those who cherish Christ above all.
...In this world I cannot see the Most High Son of God with my own eyes, except for His Most Holy Body and Blood.
It is easier to gaze into the sun, than into the face of the mystery of God. Such is its beauty and its radiance.
Follow your own way of speaking to our Lord sincerely, lovingly, confidently, and simply, as your heart dictates.
The crosses with which our path through life is strewn associate us with Jesus in the mystery of His crucifixion.
In the inner stillness where meditation leads, the Spirit secretly anoints the soul and heals our deepest wounds.
Suffering is the greatest treasure on earth; it purifies the soul. In suffering, we learn who our true friend is.
There are only two ways: either we love-and love in action is service - or we put hatred into action and destroy.
If you try, you will find it impossible to do one great thing. You can only do many small things with great love.
We must never get into the habit of being preoccupied with the future. There is no reason to do so. God is there.
I feel a great desire to abandon myself with greater trust to the Divine Mercy and to place my hope in God alone.
You say to me 'Show me your God.' I answer you, 'Everything you see in your heart that might sadden God, remove.'
Charity is the sweet and holy bond which links the soul with its Creator: it binds God with man and man with God.
Everything comes from love, all is ordained for the salvation of man, God does nothing without this goal in mind.
We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.
For me to love you, Jesus, as you love me, I would have to borrow your own love and then only would I be at rest.
For men use, if they have an evil turn, to write it in marble; and whoso doth us a good turn we write it in dust.
Remove grace, and you have nothing whereby to be saved. Remove free will and you have nothing that could be saved.
Live as though only God and yourself were in this world, so that your heart may not be detained by anything human.
In prosperity, give thanks to God with humility and fear lest by pride you abuse God's benefits and so offend him.
Let nothing perturb you, nothing frighten you. All things pass. God does not change. Patience achieves everything.
The poor are our brothers and sisters ... people in the world who need love, who need care, who have to be wanted.
The father, the mother and the teacher are the three primarily responsible for moulding the future of the country.
This awful catastrophe is not the end but the beginning. History does not end so. It is the way its chapters open.
O Lord, grant that I may do Thy will as if it were my will, so that Thou mayest do my will as if it were Thy will.
There is something in humility which, strangely enough, exalts the heart, and something in pride which debases it.
Father, I am seeking: I am hesitant and uncertain, but will you, O God, watch over each step of mine and guide me.
Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.