“Sorrow, suffering … is but a kiss of Jesus.”
“If you only knew what goes on within my heart. Sometimes the pain is so great that I feel as if everything will break.”
“I did not know that love could make one suffer so much – [a suffering] of longing – of pain human, but caused by the divine.”
“I read something beautiful – ‘There would come a time when God will fill what He had emptied.”
“[W]hy is there so much pain and darkness in my soul? Sometimes I find myself saying, ‘I can’t bear it any longer’ with the same breath I say ‘I am sorry, do with me as you wish.’”
“Many times I’ve been on the verge of ‘refusing.’ If you only knew how hard it is.”
“You must allow Jesus to make you bread to be eaten by all those you come in touch with. Let the people eat you up.”
“I can understand His majesty, His greatness, because he is God – but His humility is beyond my understanding, because He makes Himself Bread … suddenly I realized I was holding God between my two fingers.”
“Tuberculosis and cancer [are] not the great diseases. I think a much greater disease is to be unwanted, unloved.”
“I do not know whose thirst is greater, His or mine for Him.”
“In all of our lives, as in the life of Jesus, the Resurrection has to come, the joy of Easter has to dawn.”
“I ask you again – please, for the love of God … take the trouble to be holy.”
“For twenty years in Loreto [the order she joined at age 18] I prayed fervently to be forgotten, nothing to the world, to be ignored and held for nothing – and this [world-wide fame] is how the Lord has answered my prayer, but I still keep on saying the same prayer.”
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