St. Faustina Kowalska Quotes
Pure love ... knows that only one thing is needed to please God: to do even the smallest things out of great love - love, and always love.
Help me, O Lord, that my hands may be merciful and filled with good deeds, so that I may do only good to my neighbors.
Suffering is the greatest treasure on earth; it purifies the soul. In suffering, we learn who our true friend is.
O King of glory, though you hide your beauty, yet the eye of my soul rends the veil. I see the angelic choirs giving you honor without cease.
He who wants to learn true humility should reflect upon the Passion of Jesus. (267)
I demand from you deeds of mercy which are to arise out of love for me. You are to show mercy to your neighbors always and everywhere. You must not shrink from this or try to excuse yourself from it.
Entrust everything to Me and do nothing on your own, and you will always have great freedom of spirit.
God is very generous and does not deny His grace to anyone. Indeed he gives more than what we ask of Him. Faithfulness to the inspirations of the Holy Spirit-that is the shortest route.
How can one be pleasing to God when one is inflated with pride and self-love under the pretense of striving for Gods glory, while in fact one is seeking ones own glory?
Now you shall consider My love in the Blessed Sacrament. Here, I am entirely yours, soul, body and divinity, as your Bridegroom. You know what love demands: one thing only, reciprocity.
I saw the abyss of my misery; whatever there is of good in me is Yours, O Lord. But because I am so small and wretched, I have a right to count on Your boundless mercy.
Suffering is a great grace; through suffering the soul becomes like the Saviour; in suffering love becomes crystallised; the greater the suffering, the purer the love.
I know well that the greater and more beautiful the work is, the more terrible will be the storms that rage against it.
If the angels were capable of envy, they would envy us for two things: one is the receiving of Holy Communion, and the other is suffering.
It is You Jesus, stretched out on the cross, who gives me strength and are always close to the suffering soul. Creatures will abandon a person in his suffering, but You, O Lord, are faithful.
Sufferings, adversities, humiliations, failures and suspicions that have come my way are splinters that keep alive the fire of my love for You, O Jesus.
The greatest misery does not stop Me from uniting Myself to a soul, but where there is pride, I am not there.
A disobedient soul will win no victory, even if the Lord Jesus himself, in person, were to hear its confession.
I thank God for this illness and these physical discomforts, because I have the time to converse with the Lord Jesus.
O You Who are hidden, body, soul and divinity, Under the fragile form of bread, You are my life from Whom springs an abundance of graces; And, for me, You surpass the delights of Heaven.
Jesus loves hidden souls. A hidden flower is the most fragrant. I must strive to make the interior of my soul a resting place for the Heart of Jesus.
Some day, we will know the value of suffering, but then we will no longer be able to suffer.
From today onwards, I am going to strive for the greatest purity of soul, that the rays of God's grace may be reflected in all their brilliance.
The Holy Spirit does not speak to a soul that is distracted and garrulous. He speaks by His quiet inspirations to a soul that is recollected, to a soul that knows how to keep silence.
