St. Madeleine Sophie Quotes
Your example, even more than your words, will be an eloquent lesson to the world.
If I had my life to live over again, I would seek to live in complete openness to the Holy Spirit.
The Lord's mercy is eternal; eternal must be our confidence.
And what is God? Supreme happiness. That is all.
We await all from the mercy of Jesus.
Shouldn't we gratefully accept both good and bad as coming from the hand of God, for both are inclined to our advantage if we know how to profit from them.
How could one have peace which is the fruit of love of Jesus in the soul, as long as one is filled with self and has so little love for God, crucified and annihilated!
Let us hand over all our cares to Jesus, praying that he will act for us. Then everything will take care of itself.
What is the good of teaching various subjects, of wasting time in learning them, if at the same time we cannot teach children the words of life and touch their hearts and their consciences?
Let us be kind without weakness, humble without groveling.
Nothing blocks the spirit of God as much as a life of idleness.
Aim unceasingly at becoming a soul of prayer.
Be faithful to the touch of the Holy Spirit upon your soul. The Holy Spirit when free, works marvels within us.
Interior life is the bond which binds together all other religious virtues and ensures the strength of the spiritual building.
The union that the spirit of charity maintains in the family of God's Heart is the well-spring of the good it does, and the source of its strength.
Love and desire with all your hearts that beautiful simplicity so pleasing to the Heart of Jesus, which banishes all pretense and dissimulation, keeps at a distance all the silly cunning of self-love, chooses always the most straightforward and obvious line of conduct, leads us to deal with our neighbor without pretension or constraint, without affection and without guile, but with modest ease and sincere and cordial affection.
Be humble, be simple, and bring joy to others.
Prayer should be our support; the relief of our hope.
And delay with God is a kind of denial.
An abyss of blessings must draw forth an abyss of gratitude, fidelity and love.
We cannot change our character, it is true, as easily as we change our clothes. It is the work of a lifetime. It is achieved with the grace of God and constant effort.
It is not our blindness that deceives us without cease in all that pertains to ourselves? Thus let us often say to Jesus: Lord, that I may see!
Pride scourges Jesus Christ; humility scourges the devil.
Repay our God love for love, heart for heart.
Whenever assailed by humility, the devil loses the power. Humility is like a plank in a flood. We cannot cling too tighlty to this virtue.
Jesus will supply for all that we lack if our confidence in his help is without limit.
Great hearts, generous hearts, are required in the family of God's Heart, because the difficulties in the way of doing good increase day by day.
How must we pray? With faith, with love, with earnestness.
The work of interior transformation is necessary in order to become a fitting instrument in God's hands, to work for God's glory.
Draw down the Holy Spirit by prayer, recollection and dependence on grace; with these dispositions God can work through you.
A virtue that characterized Saint Ignatius was union with God and prayer; it is from that union, the result of serious prayer, that one draws strength and light.
We can only save souls if we are founded in charity, the bond of hearts. If charity grows weak, all the means we employ will fail. The Heart of Jesus recognizes as his own those who put in practice his chosen commandment.