Jealousy is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.
I accept with sincere belief the doctrine of faith as handed down to us from the Apostles by the orthodox Fathers, always in the same sense and with the same interpretation.
If I were to meet the slave-traders who kidnapped me and even those who tortured me, I would kneel and kiss their hands, for if that did not happen, I would not be a Christian and Religious today... The Lord has loved me so much: we must love everyone... we must be compassionate!
Indifference towards those in need is not acceptable for a Christian.
I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.
You cannot be half a saint; you must be a whole saint or no saint at all.
Charity is that with which no man is lost, and without which no man is saved.
Whether, therefore, we receive what we ask for, or do not receive it, let us still continue steadfast in prayer. For to fail in obtaining the desires of our heart, when God so wills it, is not worse than to receive it; for we know not as He does, what is profitable to us.
True charity consists in doing good to those who do us evil, and in thus winning them over.
Lent stimulates us to let the Word of God penetrate our life and in this way to know the fundamental truth: who we are, where we come from, where we must go, what path we must take in life.
Give something, however small, to the one in need. For it is not small to one who has nothing. Neither is it small to God, if we have given what we could.
Either we must speak as we dress, or dress as we speak. Why do we profess one thing and display another? The tongue talks of chastity, but the whole body reveals impurity.
The Child, the Lord Jesus Christ . . . Word in our flesh, Wisdom in infancy, Power in weakness, and in true Man, the Lord of Majesty.
She lived almost fifty years of her life completely dedicated to the care of the poor and the marginalized. Astonishingly, for those nearly fifty years she identified completely with the poor she served by her own experience of being seemingly unwanted and unloved by God. In a mystical way — through this painful interior "darkness" — she tasted their greatest poverty of being "unwanted, unloved, and uncared for."
As Lent is the time for greater love, listen to Jesus' thirst...'Repen t and believe' Jesus tells us. What are we to repent? Our indifference, our hardness of heart. What are we to believe? Jesus thirsts even now, in your heart and in the poor -- He knows your weakness. He wants only your love, wants only the chance to love you.
I distrust a charity that costs nothing and does not hurt.
What does the poor man do at the rich man's door, the sick man in the presence of his physician, the thirsty man at a limpid stream? What they do, I do before the Eucharistic God. I pray. I adore. I love.
Holiness doesn't mean doing extraordinary things, but doing ordinary things with love and faith.
If God is not a Trinity, God is not love. For love requires three things: a lover, a beloved, and a relationship between them.
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
Christ beside me, Christ before me, Christ behind me, Christ within me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me.
Remember that nothing is small in the eyes of God. Do all that you do with love.
Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections.
Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn't misuse it.
Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you.
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