Quotes from Mary Faustina Kowalska

God is very generous and does not deny His grace to anyone. Indeed he gives more than what we ask of Him. Faithfulness to the inspirations of the Holy Spirit-that is the shortest route.

Entrust everything to Me and do nothing on your own, and you will always have great freedom of spirit.

Help me, O Lord, that my hands may be merciful and filled with good deeds, so that I may do only good to my neighbors.

O King of glory, though you hide your beauty, yet the eye of my soul rends the veil. I see the angelic choirs giving you honor without cease.

O You Who are hidden, body, soul and divinity, Under the fragile form of bread, You are my life from Whom springs an abundance of graces; And, for me, You surpass the delights of Heaven.

Patience, prayer and silence-these are what give strength to the soul.

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.

I thank God for this illness and these physical discomforts, because I have the time to converse with the Lord Jesus.

Pure love ... knows that only one thing is needed to please God: to do even the smallest things out of great love - love, and always love.

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.

How can one be pleasing to God when one is inflated with pride and self-love under the pretense of striving for Gods glory, while in fact one is seeking ones own glory?

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.

Love endures everything, love is stronger than death, love fears nothing.

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.

True love is measured by the thermometer of suffering.

Jesus, I trust in You.

Mankind will not have peace until it turns with trust to My mercy.

I know well that the greater and more beautiful the work is, the more terrible will be the storms that rage against it.