Mother Mary Francis Quotes

• A woman's greatest and most perduring failure will be her failure to love. It is certainly not without significance that so many women presently pressing for power on the political, sociological or ecclesial scene are unbeautiful in their unsmilling press for dominance. Contorted faces and clenched fists are particularly repellant in woman, who is gifted with unique powers to radiate love and extend healing hands.

  Mother Mary Francis

  Healing, Unique, Hands

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• We live in such a noisy world that many of us have come to be afraid of silence. We think that if only we do a great deal, it does not much matter what we are.

  Mother Mary Francis

  Mother, Thinking, Silence

  Mother Mary Francis (2001). “A Right to Be Merry”, p.173, Ignatius Press

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• We shall understand that when waiting is rightly comprehended, it is a deliciousness that is already indeed a wink of bliss.

  Mother Mary Francis

  Waiting, Bliss

  Mother Mary Francis (2010). “Come, Lord Jesus: Meditations on the Art of Waiting”, p.148, Ignatius Press

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