Excerpts from the diary of Santa Faustina, phrases of the day and famous quotes from the Polish nun devoted to the order of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mercy, well known for her great faith in the merciful Jesus who wanted to spread everywhere as a fundamental mission of her life.
Quotes Santa Faustina
- God does not test us more than we can support it.
- I'm not afraid of anything. He sends to the soul that suffers an even greater grace than his own suffering, even if the soul does not realize it. At such times, an act of trust gives God more glory than whole hours spent in prayer.
- Nothing new happens under the sun, O Lord, without your will. Be blessed for all you send me. I cannot penetrate your secrets about myself, but, trusting only in your goodness, I bring my lips close to the cup you offer me. Jesus, I trust in you!
- I don't understand how you can lack confidence in the Almighty. With him everything is possible, without him nothing. He tells me very often: I don't like you abandoning yourself to unnecessary fears. Who will harm you, since you are with me? I love the soul who believes in my goodness without uncertainties. I can trust her in my turn and I give her everything she asks for.
- Jesus said to me: In every soul I do the work of my mercy. Whoever trusts in it will not perish, because all his interests are mine. Suddenly, Jesus began to complain to me for the distrust he encountered in the dearest souls: what hurts me is their distrust of me, after they have made a mistake. If they had not already experienced the unlimited goodness of my heart, this would have pained me less.
- My nothing sinks into the sea of your mercy, O Father of mercy. With the trust of a child, I throw myself into your arms to reward you for the distrust of many souls.
- How few are those who really know you! They are afraid to trust you! I too wish, with extreme ardor, that the feast of your mercy is known by everyone, because it crowns all your works and you take care of each one with the love of a mother.
- There are moments in life, when I would say that the soul is no longer able to deal with the language of men. All fatigue, nothing gives her peace; he just needs to pray. His only relief lies in this. If he turns to creatures, he will only derive a greater uneasiness.
- To persevere in prayer, the soul must arm itself with patience and courageously overcome internal and external difficulties. Inner difficulties are tiredness, discouragement, dryness, temptations; the external ones come, instead, from reasons of human relationships.
- With prayer you can face any kind of struggle. The soul will have to pray in whatever state it is.
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- She must pray to the pure and beautiful soul because, otherwise, she will lose her beauty.
- The soul who aspires to holiness must pray, because otherwise it will not be given to it.
- He must pray to the newly converted soul if he does not want to fall fatally.
Diary of Santa Faustina
- He must pray to the soul immersed in sins to get out of it. There is no soul exempted from praying, because it is through prayer that graces descend.
- When we pray, we must use intelligence, will and feeling.
- Jesus made me understand that the soul must remain faithful to prayer in spite of sufferings, dryness and temptations, because the implementation of the greatest plans of God almost always depends on such a prayer. If our perseverance was absent , we would create difficulties in what God intends to work in us and around us through us.
- Jesus my guide, teach me to fully open my mercy and my love to anyone who needs my prayer, so that this, in the same way as works, bears the seal of your mercy.
- Once when I asked Jesus how he could tolerate, without punishing them, the endless number of sins and the crimes that are committed on earth, he replied: to punish them I have eternity; now I prolong the time of my mercy.
- I wish to fill all souls with grace; if anything, they do not want to receive them. They find time for everything, they just don't find time for me.Unhappy those who will not want to recognize that this is the time when I meet them.
- The more I know the greatness of God, the more I rejoice that he is such.
- Infinitely I rejoice in the greatness of him and I'm glad to be so small because, in this way, he takes me in his arms and holds me close to his heart.
- Reflecting on the worship that I address to God, however, I find that it is very little, a drop just in comparison with the immense glory that it receives in heaven. My God, you already show yourself infinitely good by accepting my adoration and my plea and turning your face favorably on me.
- How much pain does it make people who don't believe in the supernatural world! I pray you, O God, with all my soul, that they too may be penetrated by a ray of your mercy and you will hold them tightly to yourself.
- In the moments when I feel internally abandoned, I am not upset because I know that God never abandons a soul except when the soul itself breaks the knot of love with its own infidelity. But what enormous efforts it takes to perform duties well when you have poor health! Christ knows it.
- It is good to invoke the help of the Lord while you are conversing with a person. I am very afraid of conversations, which seem confidential: it is necessary for God to give us light in order for these speeches to be useful to souls. God comes to help but you have to ask for it, and don't trust your ability totally.
- O my Jesus, I know that to be useful to souls one must unite oneself closely with you. O eternal love, a single word from a soul united closely to you provides others with a much greater good than the great speeches and sermons of an imperfect soul.
Phrases of Santa Faustina
- Virtue without prudence is not virtue. We must pray to the Holy Spirit often, asking for the grace of prudence.
- Prudence is made of reflection, wisdom and firm resolution. The final decision belongs to us and we are responsible for it. The choice is up to us, but we can and must also ask for light and advice.
- I also made resolutions in another field: to enjoy the successes of others as if I myself had obtained them.
- Today I understood what holiness is about. It is neither revelations, nor ecstasies, nor any other gift that makes my soul perfect, but the intimate union with God.
- Gifts are an ornament, not the essence of perfection. Holiness and perfection are in my close union with the will of God. He never does violence to our will. It is up to us to accept or reject God's grace, collaborate with it or waste it.
- Know, said Jesus, that by striving for your perfection, you will sanctify many other souls. If you do not seek holiness, however, other souls will also remain in their imperfection. Know that their holiness depends on yours and that much of the responsibility in this area will fall upon you. Don't be afraid: just be faithful to my grace.
- Jesus spoke to me: “My disciple, you must have a great love for those who afflict you; it does good to those who want you bad. " I answered: "My Master, you see well that I do not feel any love for them, and this pains me". Jesus replied: “Feeling is not always in your power. You will recognize that you have love when, after receiving hostility and sorrow, you do not lose peace, but you will pray for those who make you suffer and you will desire their good for them ".
- In sick or suffering people, we must see Jesus nailed to the cross and not a parasite or an unproductive member.
- The soul that suffers and accepts the will of God attracts more blessings than the people who work. Poor house, where everyone is fine! God often grants large and numerous graces in consideration of suffering people and dismisses many punishments solely for their sake.
- O humility, wonderful flower there are few souls who possess you! Maybe because you are so beautiful and at the same time so difficult to conquer? God rejoices in humility. Above a humble soul, he opens the skies and brings down a sea of grace. To such a soul God does not refuse anything. In this way it becomes omnipotent and affects the fate of the whole world. The more she humbles herself, the more God bends over her, covers her with his grace, accompanies her in all moments of life. O humility, lay your roots in my being.
- What is accomplished out of love is not a small thing. I know it is not the greatness of the work, but the greatness of the effort that will be rewarded by God. When one is weak and sick, he makes continuous efforts to get to do what everyone else normally does. However, he does not always manage to deal with it. My day begins with the struggle and also with the struggle. When I go to bed in the evening, I seem to be a soldier returning from the battlefield.
- Where there is true virtue, sacrifice cannot be missing there. All life is a great sacrifice.Only through sacrifice do souls possess the ability to be useful.
- By sacrificing myself for others, I bring glory to God. However, my sacrifice must derive from the love I have for him. It is in this love of God that everything is concentrated and has value.
- Once, to educate me on inner life, Mary said to me: "The true greatness of the soul lies in loving God and being humble before him, completely forgetting oneself, because God alone is great".
- Incomparable is the glory that awaits the soul who, on earth, looks like Jesus in his suffering: he will look like him forever even in glory. Heavenly Father will glorify our souls to the extent that he sees within us a resemblance to his Son.
