Live as the Blessed Virgin lived….
Let us live as the Blessed Virgin lived: loving God only, desiring God only, trying to please God only in all that we do.
–Saint John Vianney (1786-1859)
Humility is like…
Humility is like a pair of scales: the lower one side falls, the higher rises the other. Let us humble ourselves like the Blessed Virgin and we shall be exalted.
–Saint John Vianney (1786-1859)
Greater your sins…
The greater your sins, the greater still the triumph of the goodness, charity, and clemency of this God Who is infinitely rich in mercy.
–Saint Leonard of Port Maurice (1676-1751)
God embraces the repentant sinner…
God hates sin infinitely, but He loves His creatures infinitely. As soon as the soul repents of its sin, it recovers the love of God. If all sinners wished to return to God with contrite and humble hearts, all would be saved. This infinite kindness desires that all men reach Heaven… A mother would be less eager to rescue her child who fell into a fire than God would be to embrace the repentant sinner.
–Saint Leonard of Port Maurice (1676-1751)
Mary adopts as…
Mary seeks for those who approach her devoutly and with reverence, for such she loves, nourishes, and adopts as her children.
–Saint Bonaventure (1221-1274)
Mary opens the…
We believe that Mary opens the abyss of God’s mercy to whomsoever she wills, when she wills, and as she wills; so that there is no sinner however great who is lost if Mary protects him.
–Saint Bonaventure (1221-1274)
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