Gemma Galgani Quotes

• If you really want to love Jesus, first learn to suffer, because suffering teaches you to love.

  Gemma Galgani

  Love, Christian, Religious

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• If I saw the gates of hell open and I stood on the brink of the abyss, I would not despair; I would not lose hope of mercy, because I would trust in you, my God.

  Gemma Galgani

  Trust, God, Hope

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• There is a school in Heaven, and there one has only to learn how to love. The school is in the Cenacle; the Teacher is Jesus; the matter taught is His Flesh and His Blood

  Gemma Galgani

  Teacher, Jesus, School

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• Jesus, Food of strong souls, strengthen me, purify me, make me godlike

  Gemma Galgani

  Jesus, Strong, Soul

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• Can You see that as soon as the day breaks I think of You? As evening comes, I am near You. I am near You at every moment. I love You, Jesus!

  Gemma Galgani

  Jesus, Love You, Thinking

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• Do grant, oh my God, that when my lips approach Yours to kiss You, I may taste the gall that was given to You; when my shoulders lean against Yours, make me feel Your scourging; when my flesh is united with Yours, in the Holy Eucharist, make me feel Your passion; when my head comes near Yours, make me feel Your thorns; when my heart is close to Yours, make me feel Your spear.

  Gemma Galgani

  Passion, Heart, Kissing

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• 'Look Daughter, and learn how to love' and He showed me His five open wounds.

  Gemma Galgani

  Daughter, Looks, How To Love

  Saint Gemma Galgani , Aeterna Press (2016). “Saint Gemma Galgani Collection [2 Books]”, p.102, Aeterna Press

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• I should willingly give every drop of my blood to please Him and to prevent sinners offending Him. I shall be satisfied only when I am a victim to make reparation for my innumerable sins and for the sins of all the world.

  Gemma Galgani

  Blood, Offending, Giving

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• O Jesus, if I but considered attentively your immense solicitude for me, how greatly should I not excel in every virtue? Pardon me, O Jesus, so much carelessness, pardon such great ignorance. My God, Jesus my Love, Increated Goodness, what would have become of me if you had not drawn me to yourself? Open your heart to me, open to me your sacramental breast; I open mine to you.

  Gemma Galgani

  Faith, Jesus, Inspiration

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• During this same year of 1896 another desire began to grow in me. I began to feel an ever greater yearning to love Jesus Crucified very much, and at the same time a desire to suffer with him and to help him in his sufferings.

  Gemma Galgani

  Jesus, Years, Suffering

  Saint Gemma Galgani , Aeterna Press (2016). “Saint Gemma Galgani Collection [2 Books]”, p.56, Aeterna Press

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