Aphorisms and quotations of Saint Bernadette Soubirous, famous phrases from the writings left as a guide on the path of Christian faith, personal reflections and novenas of prayer to obtain thanks.
Aphorisms of Saint Bernadette
- I will not live a single moment without spending it loving.
- What little time we are in the world, we must use it well.
- If you knew how good Our Lady is!
- I'm better, the Lord didn't want me, I went to the door and He said: go back, it's too early.
- God only knows how much it costs me to have to present myself before the bishops, the priests, the people of the world.
- He who loves, does everything effortlessly, or loves his effort.
- I can't find any Madonna beautiful after seeing the original.
- The Virgin sometimes wants long prayers, and a person was healed only after nine novenas.
- Our Lady told me that I would not have been happy in this world, but in the other.
- You must always see God in the superiors, I accept equally.
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- I certainly would not have chosen this inaction in which I am reduced. Prayer is my only weapon ...
- When you pass the chapel, if you do not have time to stop, instruct your guardian angel to bring your message to the Lord in the tabernacle. He will bring it and then join you again.
- Transport yourself to the Mount of Olives or at the foot of the cross, and stay there: the Lord will speak to you and you will listen to him.
Quotes of Saint Bernadette
- I think it is the Madonna who gives me the Child Jesus. I'll take it. I speak to him and he speaks to me.
- Why do we have to suffer? Because down here pure Love does not exist without suffering.
- Love the good God my daughters so much. It's all in this.
- When one cannot pray, one turns to Saint Joseph.
- The Lady has repeated to me that she wants a chapel built in that place and she also said to me: “I want you to come here in procession.
- When you are in front of the Blessed Sacrament, on one side you have the Madonna who inspires you what you have to say to the Lord, and on the other your guardian angel who takes note of your distractions.
- Cost whatever it costs you need to talk about my mother from Heaven.
- We must receive the Lord well, we have every interest in making him a good welcome, a kind welcome, because then he must pay the rent.
- No, parish priest. He said just like this: "I am the Immaculate Conception.
- If you work for creatures, you will have no reward and you will tire much more.
- The holy Virgin and Saint Joseph are in perfect agreement, and jealousy does not exist in heaven.
- What do you think of me? Do you want me not to know that if Our Lady chose me it is because I was the most ignorant? If he had found a more ignorant one, he would have taken her.
- What refers to me no longer concerns me, I must be, as of now, entirely of God, and of God alone. Never about myself.
Phrases of Saint Bernadette
- Well, sister, do not forget what I tell you: wherever you are, always remember to work only for the Lord. See, right? For the Lord.
- For the greater glory of God, the important thing is not to do much, but to do it well.
- When we care too much about something, it doesn't please God.
- Mary sacrificed everything and God only replaces everything.
- Little girls, love Our Lady so much, and pray to her very much. It will protect you.
- He who exposes himself to temptation, says Holy Scripture, will fall to it.
- I would be afraid of dying if I saw the last moment approaching !. Oh, we never know that moment. And when he comes, the Lord gives us the strength to face him.
- Oh yes! We have to pray a lot for sinners. Our Lady recommended it.
- I do not force you to believe me, but I can only reply by saying what I have seen and heard.
- My God, be blessed in everything. We each have our means, our way to come to you.
- On the occasion of the coronation of the statue of Our Lady in Lourdes (June 1876): if I could transport myself by balloon to the cave and stay there for a few minutes to pray when there is nobody there, I would go there willingly; but having to travel like everyone else and find myself in the crowd, I prefer to stay here (at the Convent of Nevers).
- I generously make the sacrifice of never seeing Lourdes again. I have only one aspiration, that of seeing the Holy Virgin glorified and loved.
- Mister parish priest, the Lady has not told me that the procession should be done now. It seems to me that she spoke, not of the present, but of the future.
- Provided they don't get rich. Tell them not to get rich. (Regarding some improvement in the economic situation of his family members).
- Money burns me.
- If we had faith we would see the good God in everything.
