Quotes and Sayings

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"Love can only be consoled with love!"

"Let us form our hearts in the school of the Heart of Mary."

"May love triumph in the human heart!"

"The world needs witnesses of love to the extreme!"

"Only love triumphs. Selfishness is always a defeat."

"The triumph of love comes about when the Holy Spirit takes from us our heart of stone and gives us a heart of flesh."

"The emblem of love is the Heart of Jesus, the Heart of God made man, it is the place of encounter between the two loves, that of heaven and earth."

"The Eucharist is the gift par excellence of the Sacred Heart. We can not understand the Eucharist without understanding the love of the Heart of Jesus."

"To contemplate the Heart of Jesus is to contemplate His Love, love that is capable of transforming our hearts of stone into hearts of flesh." (cf. Ez 36:26)

"Our ears have not heard, our eyes have not seen what the power of love can create. Love has the power to transform impossibilities into simple realities."

"Do not waste all your time by looking down when there are so many wonders to contemplate."

"Our human dignity is manifested in that capacity to choose love when the forces of selfishness are so strongly fighting inside of us, calling us to be less than what are capable of being."

"Love always triumphs when we choose to freely rise above our fears and hurts. Love is the strength and the force of the human heart... therefore, love is your truest and fullest identity."

"When we are faced with choosing between two different paths: love or fear, self-denial or self-preservation, generosity or selfishness, expanding the heart or closing it, it is precisely at that moment that we need to be witnesses to love."

"Advent is a Marian time...and we must live it with a particular Marian expression: to live it from within the maternal and expecting heart of Mary, to enter into the mystery of her maternity, in her joyful waiting, in her sublime preparation, to come to contemplate, in her arms, the Word made flesh".

"Let us contemplate the Child Jesus! That we may become what we contemplate and reflect to others what we become."

"The triumph of the Immaculate Heart is the Triumph of the Church."

"True spiritual life does not annihilate human nature rather it elevates it and perfect it."

"Only love makes the surrendering of one's life a joyful and beautiful gift."

"Only love makes losing one's life a fruitful experience of gain."

"If only we would know the love of Christ's Heart...if only we would run after love instead of running away from it."

"Poverty does not mean having nothing, being insufficient, but living by what is sufficient according to God"

"Enter into the Pierced Heart of Jesus. To enter means to draw near, to draw closer to His Heart... to allow ourselves  to touch and be touched by the mystery of His Love. The one who draws near, the one who enters, participates more closely of the effects of His love."

"Love is not understood. Love is not known. We can not choose love unless we know love".

"Love is a mystery, as much as it is a gift. Love is a mystery that is to be pondered and allowed to grow...this growth expands the heart and matures it for generosity".

"Love must be recognized by the actions it produces."

"Love has no limits.... let us expand our hearts to love!"

"Love must be visible, love must be perceived for love to be credible! "

"Conquer hearts by loving them!"

"Love in essence is always seeking to be given away... "

"We can only understand the redemptive power of suffering, if we contemplate it from the Cross of Christ, and we explain it through the language of love."

"Life is such a fruit of love!!! When love is chosen, when life is chosen even when it seems so difficult to be delivered, it becomes a testimony of love. Life is always a choice of love..."

"We must not be afraid to speak about love. We must have the courage to speak about love, to believe in love, to live love and to witness to love."

"Only love makes the surrendering of one's life a joyful and beautiful gift. Only love makes losing one's life a fruitful experience of gain."

"Freedom of the heart is the capacity to love, to give ourselves unconditionally and totally, without reserve."

"Only love, the pure love of the human heart, is the soil in which the seed, the Word, can be conceived, be fruitful and multiply."

"Love is possible; it becomes so as a fruit of the most intimate communion of heart with the Heart of God."

“The triumph of love is the triumph of the wisdom and the logic of the Cross. The Wisdom of the Cross transcends all human wisdom. It demolishes the selfish, comfortable and easy solutions of human wisdom. The Wisdom of the Cross is a scandal to the mentality and ways of our flesh and of the world: it is the triumph of love and the triumph of light. This Wisdom must be known and received, thus it can transform the interior path of the human heart”.

“We need to form our hearts in the Science of Love to allow love to inform, illuminate and direct our decisions and choices. May this Wisdom of Love become incarnate in the choices we make."

"Love and Responsibility can never be separated, for Love is enfleshed in the responsible choices of the human heart."

"We are called to profess, to witness and proclaim that love is not only possible, but that love is the only way for the human heart to become fully who we are."

"Yes, the Family is to be a Home of Love…. a home where authentic love is taught with simplicity and courage, where love is believed to be possible, not a utopia."

"There is nothing that elevates and expands more the human heart than love, humility, obedience, service, and littleness."

"I see history as the unfolding of the Father's designs of love in total dialogue with the human heart, with its fiats and no's...and the mercy of God's love turning every moment, every response into a greater triumph of love and for love."

"Every act of love of the human heart is a smile in God's Heart"

" A very dignifying language, proper to the new civilization of love and the dignity of the human person, is a language that brings the power of the Word into our human realities."

"Only Love gives the deepest response and the salvific meaning to human suffering."

"Love must be visible and perceptible. If it is not, it is a false or distorted image of love, or simply, an absent image of love.”


"Let us contemplate the joys and sufferings of the heart of St. Joseph, the heart that placed the gift of himself totally at the service of the work of salvation. The heart that participated in this plan with the total and complete gift of his self oblation for the Mother and the Child; and found in this vocation of oblation, the most sublime and elevated realization of his humanity and his masculine heart.”

"Love must be perceptible, tangible, visible in its expressions, its acts and its fruit. Love is the potency of acts, acts are the concrete options of love, and these acts big or small, silent or known are always fecund, capable of transforming the human person, the family, the Church, society, the world and finally, history."

“A path of formation, purification, maturation and elevation in authentic love, should be communicated and should be taught to many hearts:
an incarnated love in the daily concrete options of each vocation!”

“Love is perfect...and only love perfects the human heart.”

“We should go out to the whole world and offer the treasure that we have received, treasure that enriches our heart, enriches the whole Church, treasure that has been placed in our hands and that many, many still do not know.”

“The humanity of today…is in need of the missionary ardor of men and women that, in total communion with the heart of the Church, set out with generosity, courage and enthusiasm to refresh the world.”

“The hour has arrived for us to go out under the gaze of Our Mother, under her starred mantle, under her luminous direction and voice, and insider her fecund womb…cooperating with our candles lit for the Church in America to be a star in the New Evangelization.” 

“Love…ignites the heart, places us in movement, and incites us into motion with missionary ardor to be Witnesses, Apostles and Messengers of the Love of God.”

“God is Love … He is the way, the truth and the life of man- the full realization of his healing, liberation, redemption and elevation. Love is man’s only and permanent happiness!”

“The world of today, the nations of today, the men and women of today, the marriages of today, the families of today, are all hungry and thirsty for authentic Love, for the only Love that can satiate and respond to the profound restlessness in his heart.”

“The time has come that the Witnesses of Love, those of us who have contemplated, have heard, have experienced his powerful effects, have seen the light, who have touched, who have been formed in Love—to set out with ardor and promptitude to go out into the deep, into the ocean of humanity and of history.”

“This missionary ardor of the Blessed Mother that goes throughout the world to preach the Gospel, as we have seen in the Marian Apparitions -Visitations (as in Guadalupe), precedes the ‘going out into the deep’ of the Petrine Principle.”

“Simplicity of heart is the key to peace.”

“The ‘going out into the deep’ of the Blessed Mother takes place when the Bark of her ‘blessed and fecund womb’ brings Jesus within her.”

“This love that has been given to us like a gratuitous gift, this understanding that love is the essence and vocation of the human family, this formation in the paths and elevation of the heart to live the heights of the life of love of the Hearts of Jesus and the Heart of his Mother, this gift- is also our great task!”

“From the womb of the Blessed Mother, Jesus, God-made-Man, begins to communicate the effects of the redemption: His salvation.”

“Jesus is born and grows in the House of Nazareth, and begins from that interior life of the family—to save humanity.”

“When [Jesus] began His public mission, He preached and presented the Gospel of the Kingdom from the mountains and from the bark – His two pulpits.”

"We are at the service of the 'New Evangelization' following the vision of H.H. John Paul II: new in ardor, methods, and expression so as to build the civilization of love and life."

“We should have the Marian spirit of generosity and promptitude, but not of impulsiveness, so that we can ‘go out in haste to serve’”

“Love is man’s highest dignity.”

“Every vocation is a response to the love of God that calls the human heart to give itself completely and unconditionally. At the root of every vocation is the call to the total and generous gift of self.”

"Love Incarnate allowed Himself to be wounded...allowed Himself to be crucified. Love was wounded and Love conquered! ”

“We should have the spirit of obedience and the confidence of St. Peter to be able to say: ‘If you command it, I will lower the nets.’” 

"The Eucharist is the outstanding gift of love of the Sacred Heart. We can not understand the Eucharist unless we understand the love of the Heart of Jesus."

"The sign of authentic love is that the sacrifice is offered freely."

"It is the Love of God that allows the human heart to find its rest, its healing, its restoration."

"Only the religion that teaches the love of God and brethren can perfect the human person.  Jesus has taught us what perfect love is.  The Incarnation is the entrance of God into human life – into his culture, work, and environment – in order to transform it.  Culture, to be authentically human, must accept love."

"To love as He has loved us we need to enter into His Heart and to learn from Him the true dimensions of love.  We cannot conform ourselves with living less than love."

"Man’s happiness and fulfillment is to know that he is loved by God. Man’s happiness is to know that he is loved by his Father and his Creator."

"Behold!! I am the servant of the Lord! What a title! what and identity that permeated all her mission. She, who was chosen to be the Mother of the Redeemer of men, gave the sincere and total gift of self to the Lord and to humanity. Her love was rooted, in her inmaculate self giving, and in her simple yet profounf identity: to be a servant!"

"The time has come for us to set out in haste, to advance through the oceans of the world and to anounce with humility, joy and profound conviction, the salvific power of the Gospel. The time has come to go out into the deep..."

"We are capable of heroic choices of love...do not settle for less."

"May Our Lady sit at the chair of our hearts and teach us the path of love. May we always be attentive to the movements of her hands so we may follow her maternal directions."

"The Heart of Jesus always triumphs, we only need to learn to trust in the ways He chooses to realize His triumphs!"

"In the School of the Heart of Mary we must rediscover the path of faith to be formed in a pure faith, a firm faith, a faithful and unshakeable faith, an ardent faith, and a fecund faith."

“I invite you to be more in silence, to discipline your senses to be more recollected, directed to God, to His Love and His Word… We live in a noisy time and noisy world…not necessarily of the “noise” we tend to define as such…The first noise that attacks the human spirit is the attention to self, to what is important to us, of what we demand as happiness and what we expect or even demand of others…We sometimes demand the attention of others…and we have noisy ways of doing so, like: gestures, faces, questions, behaviors…etc… We can only bow before the Child in Bethlehem, before the “poor and simple visitations” of God, if we learn to be more silent before the Lord, contemplate his Word more…keep more silence to learn to speak His language: love and truth”.

"Longing is a powerful disposition of the heart, because when we long for God we bring Him to earth.  Our Lady longed for God in such an immaculate manner that He came and dwelled in Her.  Longing is a movement of love; longing is the desire to be with the beloved. Our Lady is the teacher of our longing for the presence of God.”

“It is in Saint Joseph’s heart that you are to model yourselves in the mission to be custodians of the treasures of the Church. To be a custodian means that you are to be humble to recognize that the treasure you have received is an undeserved gift. To be a custodian is to courageously forget about yourselves to love with more dedication and attention the treasure you have been entrusted with.”

“Among all the luminous treasures that John Paul II gave us, the greatest, has been, is and will be his having been a true witness of LOVE, a witness of the Priestly Heart of Jesus and the Maternal Heart of Mary; having been a living witness of oblative, abnegated and fecund love of the Hearts of Jesus and Mary.”

"You, you are love; your essence is love because God is love and you are made in His image and likeness. Please live according to this dignity, you are love! Nothing less than love is truly you and you need to understand that love is who you are and love should be your life... in the most concrete realities of your daily living."

"Enter into the Pierced Heart of Jesus. To enter means to draw near, to draw closer to His Heart... to allow ourselves to touch and be touched by the mystery of His Love. The one who draws near, the one who enters,
participates more closely of the effects of His love."

“Be not afraid, to comprehend the length, the height and the depth of God’s love, and also of your love. Love is very high and reaches very high, love has high standards of living!...Love elevates us from where we have been accustomed to be, love cannot conformed itself with leaving us with a heart that does not know and go deep in to the mysteries of above… Your hearts are so full of life, so full of love that the love of Jesus is calling forth in a loud voice: Young People come out! Love is deep!”

"God is love; His essence is love. It is not just that He loves us, but rather, that He is Love. Everything that emanates from Him is love; there is nothing in Him that is not love; His being is Love; all his interior activity is love; all His external acts are love. God does not do any other thing than Love, and Love to the extreme. He loves infinitely, He loves immutably, He loves eternally, and He loves faithfully and mercifully."

“Love is perfect...and only love perfects the human heart, every act of love of the human heart is a smile in God's Heart"

“Love is the seed planted by God in our souls in order to take us to great heights of human fulfillment… The greatest fulfillment of the human person is in giving, in offering oneself.”

“We need to be filled with the power of the Most High so that He may cleanse, purify, beautify, and transform our will in total unity with the love of the Blessed Trinity. This unity of spirit is when man becomes one with God.”

"Holiness is not an emotional experience of God...Holiness is the capacity to choose with freedom and generosity, to give oneself, to serve and to wash the feet of the others, to give our life for the good of the others. Holiness is the total identification of our hearts with the Hearts of Jesus and Mary...not as devotion or an external form of spirituality, but as a supreme and demanding path of transformation and conversion."

“Only a virtuous and holy heart, an obedient and docile heart, a poor and meek heart, an oblative and generous heart, a simply and peaceful heart, a humble and pure heart, is the one that inherits the land, contemplates the power of His kingdom, is consoled and brought to a deeper communion with God.”

“Listen to our Lady’s Heart who is the sure path to know the will of her Son. She will always lead you to Jesus’ Heart and accompany in your journey towards the realization of His loving plans for your life…She will teach you the path of holiness… She will form you to be living witnesses of Christ love to others and thus to build, day by day, by your example, a new civilization of love.”

"In the School of the Heart of Mary we must rediscover the path of faith to be formed in a pure faith, a firm faith, a faithful and unshakeable faith, an ardent faith, and a fecund faith."

“The future is in your hearts and in your hands. God is entrusting to you the task, at once difficult and uplifting, of working with him in the building of the civilization of love. You must have the courage to speak about Christ, to bear witness to your faith through a life-style inspired by the Gospel."

"Love is a choice from a heart that with courage, disposes itself to remain firm and solid when it is directly beaten by storms. Love is a choice and it will always be a choice! It is a response of love of the
human Heart to Him who has loved us first."

“Do not be afraid to embrace God’s love. He is the true happiness of your heart… Do not be afraid to follow Him closely, He is the good shepherd who will always lead you to green pastures where your heart can rest in His love.  Do not be afraid to be saints, courageous young men and women, who stand up in the mists of the selfishness and emptiness of the promises of the world, witnessing to a greater purpose in life.  Do not be afraid of being different from those who do not believe, for you, are to be the salt of the earth and the light of the world.” 

“Do not be afraid, dear young hearts, to search for the true answers to the deepest questions of your heart… Do not be conformed to just any answer; let Christ respond to the fundamental questions of your heart. 
Let Him show you the path to true happiness.”

“Dear Young People, have the courage to be ardent witnesses of the love of Christ!”

“Simple hearts are the most intelligent hearts because they possess without any contamination, they possess the wisdom of love, the science of love…Love is the greatest intelligence of the human heart because love is God and God is love and He is the perfect Intelligence, the infinite Intelligence, and the infinite Wisdom… No one can become wise unless it’s simple. Simple hearts are very courageous because they see and they dispose themselves totally to choose what love requires, even if it requires martyrdom.”

“Be not afraid, to comprehend the length, the height and the depth of God’s love, and also of your love. Love is very high and reaches very high, love has high standards of living!...Love elevates us from where we have been accustomed to be, love cannot conformed itself with leaving us with a heart that does not know and go deep in to the mysteries of above… Your hearts are so full of life, so full of love that the love of Jesus in calling forth in a loud voice: Young People come out! Love is deep!”

“Witnesses are formed by the authenticity of their obedience to God’s will, by being disciples who sit at the School of Christ’s Heart with the dispositions of listening, receiving, assenting with intellect and will, like
Our Lady’s Heart, to the Word, the Revelation of God”

“Love has a face. Love is visibly revealed in the virtues lived in the human heart. Virtues are the elevation of our humanity; the effects of the power of His redeeming love in us.”

“Sometimes it seems impossible to believe in the possibility of love. Sometimes it looks impossible for love to be possible. Precisely because for most of our hearts, love seems impossible, is that we have before our eyes and our hearts a great gift and also a great task. We are to come to know, to believe, to live and testify that love is possible”.

“I invite you to be more in silence, to discipline your senses to be more recollected, directed to God, to His Love and His Word… We live in a noisy time and noisy world…not necessarily of the “noise” we tend to define as such…The first noise that attacks the human spirit is the attention to self, to what is important to us, of what we demand as happiness and what we expect or even demand of others…We sometimes demand the attention of others…and we have noisy ways of doing so, like: gestures, faces, questions, behaviors…etc… We can only bow before the Child in Bethlehem, before the “poor and simple visitations”of God, if we
learn to be more silent before the Lord, contemplate his Word more…keep more silence to learn to speak  His language: love and truth”.

“It is in Saint Joseph’s heart that you are to model yourselves in the mission to be custodians of the treasures of the Church. To be a custodian means that you are to be humble to recognize that the treasure you have received is an undeserved gift… To be a custodian is to courageously forget about yourselves to love with more dedication and attention the treasure you have been entrusted with”.

“Among all the luminous treasures that John Paul II gave us, the greatest, has been, is and will be his having been a true witness of LOVE, a witness of the Priestly Heart of Jesus and the Maternal Heart of Mary; having been a living witness of oblative abnegated and fecund love of the Hearts of Jesus and Mary.”

“Lent is a ‘Sacred time’ of purification and conversion… is a time of prayer, silence fasting, penance, self giving… serious examination of our heart, thoughts, disposition, attitudes and values… it is a privilege time to enter into the Heart of Jesus through the Heart of Mary…”  

“To ascend the mountain of Holiness we must first ask the Holy Spirit to give us the light to know ourselves. No one can seek purification unless they see themselves in need of it. No one can seek deeper conversion unless they see what is in need of change, renunciation or maturation.”  

“The mountain of holiness cannot be ascended until we recognize by name the specifics sentiments, thoughts, actions, words, reactions, attitudes or omissions, passiveness and compulsions, indifferences and selfishness… that take place in our hearts and our lives. We must not be afraid to see… so we can seek conversion and maturity”. 

“A contrite heart, a heart that experiences interior pain because of his sinful inclinations and tendencies, or patterns or behaviors or character is the greatest sacrifice we can offer to the Lord and it is the necessary first step or foundation for a life of holiness”.

“We have been call to console His Heart. Only love can console His Heart, only holiness and virtue can give an offering of love
to His wounded Face and Pierced Heart”. 

“We must ask the Holy Spirit to illumine us and help us to come to know the depths of the Heart of God, to discover His sentiments and the mysteries revealed in each passage of Sacred Scripture."

“Give me your Heart, oh Mother, that I may attentively listen to His Word and carefully keep it and treasure it, as you oh Mother; that I may follow him and walk with Him in total freedom and poverty of heart as you, oh Mary." 

“Smile, Mother, smile with your love in the deepest recesses of our hearts and heal us, thus restored and freed, we may know the depth, the height, the width and the length of God’s love; we may live in perfect bonds of love with other hearts and we may ardently witness to love in the Heart of the Church."

“She is the maternal apostle of  humanity. She goes across the mountains of humanity and the world bringing in all ways the life of Christ to many. We must do the same… we must be faithful witnesses to all that we have seen, heard and touch. We must be like Our Lady, apostles to all humanity.”

"The time has come for us to be instruments in the hands of Mary to reveal to the world the love of the Heart of Jesus, love that has not spared itself in anything to save, redeem, release and heal mankind."

“Let us not waste the time of our lives; let us offer ourselves to console the Hearts of Jesus and Mary, and to promote their Kingdom. Let us respond to the reason of our existence.”

“It is our task this year, to learn to contemplate, in prayer and in the silence of our heart, the passages, the events, the teachings, the signs and gestures of the Gospel of our Lord. Only in this way we will be able to be authentic disciples of Christ”.

“Work has deep spiritual and human dimensions... Whoever does not put the best of themselves in their work does not allow the full development  of their potentialities.” 

“May the luminous transparency of the Immaculate shine in your hearts so that  your lives may be a very clear reflection of the presence of God.”  

"For us Catholics to make memory is to actualize the mystery that we remember, it is to make actual in our lives, the triumph of the cross…The triumph of the Cross is the triumph of Love!"

"Do not be afraid to be saints, courageous young men and women, who stand up in the midst of selfishness and emptiness of the promises of the world, witnessing to a greater purpose in life. Do not be afraid of being different from those who do not believe, for you are to be the salt of the earth and the light of the world."

"Pray the Rosary... may it always be in your hands. Our Lady is unceasingly calling us to pray the Rosary. If the Rosary was prayed in the families, they would not experience such great crisis."

“When we are presented with two paths before our eyes: love or fear, abnegation or self-preservation; generosity or selfishness; expanding our heart or shrinking it: it is precisely at that moment when we must be witnesses of love.”

“From the moment in which Jesus, out of infinite love, becomes one with the reality of human suffering; pain is transformed and it stops being a dead reality, empty and without purpose, it becomes a channel of redemption and salvation .”

“Only by being men and women of the Gospel  we will be able to be and live like leaven in the midst of the world, like salt and light of the earth.”

"Our Lady with Her maternal and immaculate presence can transform the place of garbage into a sanctuary, a place of love, unconditional charity, a place of light, a place of prayer, and a place or hope, a place of faith.”

“God became man, became a child, to come to encounter man. He was the first one to set out to come to meet humanity and to donate himself entirely to the work of our redemption. Jesus set out to come to the stable, to the Bethlehem of humanity, to illuminate our darkness, to give joy to our sorrows, give hope to our broken horizons, give health to the sick, give forgiveness and mercy to a humanity wounded by sin.”

“May we combat the culture of indifference by choosing everyday to think of the good of others before ourselves.”

"Conversion of heart is to discover and see before our eyes a new path, the most excellent path, the most perfect path, this perfect path is love. And this love is demanding; that is, it  requires of  us to walk the narrow and the uphill path of conversion of  heart, to break the selfish narrowness and  self-referential, utilitarian indifference and selfishness of our hearts; to widen the tent and give ourselves joyfully looking always to do good to others." 

"In the dark and difficult moments of human history, God makes himself present. God enters into history in so many ways, but always comes to reach us and to offer His salvation.  God intervenes in history, raising up men and women that, in the simplicity and generosity of their fiats, become witnesses of hope, lit candles, rays of light that pierce the darkness and reveal to humanity that only with God and in God can man find the deepest meaning of life… that only in Him can he find his highest destiny: a witness of hope there where evil abounds.  Good always conquers, love always conquers… where darkness, error, violence, and the disorientation of the human heart seem to reign, God in His mercy always sends “stars” that illumine the storms of the ocean of history and, with their light, redirect its horizon, its origin, its path and its destiny."

“How simple and serene is the love that simply seeks to be given without seeking anything for itself."

"Do not reject difficulties, they are chapters in the building up of our character and our fidelity."

“When prayer is first, it means that God is first in our life ... May God always be first." 

 

 

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