“Why do you fear death? Do you doubt Me?
(1) For your sins: see here is My mercy.
(2)For your cares, your anxieties, your desires: here is My Providence.
(3) For your weakness: here is My Omnipotence.
(4) It is My joy to give you hour by hour sufficient strength, to have you entirely dependent on My love.”
– Jesus to Sr. Mary of the Trinity
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(1) St. John Vianney (Taken from his Catechism): “Some say, ‘I have done too much evil; the good God cannot pardon me.’ My children, this is a great blasphemy; it is putting a limit to the mercy of God, which has no limit – it is infinite. You may have done evil enough to lose the souls of a whole parish, and if you confess, if you are sorry for having done this evil, and resolve not to do it again, the good God will have pardoned you.”
“My mercy for fallen souls is limitless.” – Jesus to Sr. Josefa
(2) Garrigou-Lagrange (Taken from ‘The Three Ages of the Interior Life’): “We read of the just in the Book of Wisdom: ‘Though in the sight of men they suffered torments, their hope is full of immortality. Afflicted in few things, in many they shall be well rewarded: because God hath tried them, and found them worthy of Himself. As gold in the furnace He hath proved them, and as a victim of a holocaust He hath received them.’ Thus trial causes hope to grow, and hope does not deceive us, for God does not abandon those who trust Him. ‘No one hath hoped in the Lord, and hath been confounded.’ It is evident that the Lord will not refuse Himself to those who love Him, to those to whom He has already given His Son. . . . He has prepared eternal beatitude for those who love Him above all else.”
(3) “And when the enemy represents to us our weakness, let us say with the Apostle, ‘I can do all things in Him who strengtheneth me’ (Phil. 4:13). Of myself I can do nothing; but I trust in God, that, by His grace, I shall be able to do all things…” – St. Alphonsus
“The only way to make rapid progress along the path of divine love is to remain very little and put all our trust in almighty God.” -St. Therese
(4) “O My daughter, how many would have abandoned Me if they had not been crucified. The cross is a gift too precious, and from it come many virtues.”
– Jesus to St. Gemma Galgani (Born: March 12, 1878; Died: April 11, 1903)
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