Quotes from Ralph Martin

She urges us to realize that to be united with the Lord in such a manner is a great gift and privilege. Her advice: be careful, be appreciative, be faithful, be a friend.

This prayer, then, is a little spark of the Lord's true love which He begins to enkindle in the soul. . . . And if we don't extinguish it through our own fault, it is what will begin to enkindle the large fire that . . . throws forth flames of the greatest love of God. . . . This little spark is the sign or the pledge God gives to this soul that He now chooses it for great things if it will prepare itself to receive them.

Much has to change in us in order to make us capable of deep union with God. The wounds of both original sin and our personal sins are deep and need to be healed and transformed in a process that has its necessarily painful moments. The pain of purification is called by John of the Cross the "dark night." It is important not to be surprised by the painful moments of our transformation but to know that they're a necessary and blessed part of the whole process.

ignoring the whole content and context of St. Faustina's message of Divine Mercy has contributed to the very same deceit.

He will judge people on the basis of their response — or lack of response — to mercy. Those who presume on the mercy of God without repenting are "storing up wrath" for themselves

The initial aim of Jesus was to preach repentance from sin and its forgiveness; at heart this was an admonition for men to shift the basis of their life from being self-centered to God-centered, from being their own men and women to being God's men and women.

In the early stages, this withdrawal helps center the soul properly on God and not on His consolations and gives an opportunity for deeper and truer decisions of commitment to God to be made. Also called the "dark night of the senses," the soul is purified of gross attachments to the delights of the senses and the things of this world, thus increasing its desire for God.

An action of God may be the only thing that can save the Church today.

Worship is an exercise of the Holy Spirit directed primarily to God

Whenever people open their hearts to God in some way, the Lord wants to do something good. Even if it just got scheduled randomly for that day, I'm sure [Pope Francis] sees significance in that.

Charismatics have seen pictures of Pope Francis when he was Archbishop of Buenos Aires praying and asking Protestant pastors to pray for him. His friendship towards the charismatic renewal is there.