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. Mary Faustina Kowalska More Quotes by Mary Faustina Kowalska More Quotes From Mary Faustina Kowalska 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. Mary Faustina Kowalska demandsainttrying A talkative soul lacks both the essential virtues and intimacy with God. A deeper interior life, one of gentle peace and of that silence where the Lord dwells, is quite out of the question. A soul that has never tasted the sweetness of inner silence is a restless spirit which disturbs the silence of others. Mary Faustina Kowalska essentialssilencesoul I desire to unite Myself to human souls, Know, My daughter, that when I come to a human heart in Holy Communion, My hands are full of all kinds of graces which I want to give to the soul. But souls do not even pay any attention to Me; they leave Me to Myself and busy themselves with other things... They treat Me as a dead object. Mary Faustina Kowalska daughterchristianheart 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. Mary Faustina Kowalska blessedchristianhere-i-am Oh, how great is the goodness of God, greater than we can understand. There are moments and there are mysteries of the divine mercy over which the heavens are astounded. Let our judgment of souls cease, for God's mercy upon them is extraordinary. Mary Faustina Kowalska inspirationfaithheaven My likeness to Jesus must be through suffering and humility. Mary Faustina Kowalska humilitysufferingjesus Know that My Heart is mercy itself. From this sea of mercy graces flow out upon the world....I desire that your heart be an abiding place of My mercy. I desire that this mercy flow out upon the whole world through your heart. Mary Faustina Kowalska inspirationfaithheart A disobedient soul will win no victory, even if the Lord Jesus himself, in person, were to hear its confession. Mary Faustina Kowalska soulwinningjesus 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. Mary Faustina Kowalska envyangeltwo 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. Mary Faustina Kowalska adversityfirejesus To give worthy praise to the Lord's mercy, we unite ourselves with Your Immaculate Mother, for then our hymn will be more pleasing to You, because She is chosen from among men and angels. Through Her, as through a pure crystal, Your mercy was passed on to us. Through Her, man became pleasing to God; Through Her, streams of grace flowed down upon us. Mary Faustina Kowalska angelchristianmother Do not bargain with any temptation; lock yourself immediately in My[Jesus] Heart and, at the first opportunity, reveal the temptation to the confessor.....Do not fear struggle; courage itself often intimidates temptations, and they dare not attack us. Mary Faustina Kowalska struggleheartjesus 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. Mary Faustina Kowalska miserysawsmercy Jesus, I trust in You. Mary Faustina Kowalska inspirationfaithjesus The tongue is a small member, but it does big things. A religious who does not keep silence will never attain holiness; that is, she will never become a saint. Let her not delude herself - unless it is the Spirit of God who is speaking through her, for then she must not keep silent. But, in order to hear the voice of God, one has to have silence in one's soul and to keep silence; not a gloomy silence but an interior silence; that is to say, recollection in God. Mary Faustina Kowalska voicereligiousorder The soul's true greatness is in loving God and in humbling oneself in His presence, completely forgetting oneself and believing oneself to be nothing; because the Lord is great, but He is well-pleased only with the humble; He always opposes the proud. Mary Faustina Kowalska humilityhumblebelieve Mankind will not have peace until it turns with trust to My mercy. Mary Faustina Kowalska mercyinspirationfaith O, my Jesus, I understand well that, just as illness is measured with a thermometer and a high fever tells us of the seriousness of the illness; so also, in the spiritual life, suffering is the thermometer which measures the love of God in a soul. Mary Faustina Kowalska soulspiritualjesus The greatest misery does not stop Me from uniting Myself to a soul, but where there is pride, I am not there. Mary Faustina Kowalska pridesouldoe True love is measured by the thermometer of suffering. Mary Faustina Kowalska true-love-issufferinglove-is
