Occupation: Saint Birth: 1248 Death: January 4, 1309
In that time and by God's will there died my mother, who was a great hindrance unto me in following the way of God; my husband died likewise, and in ….
This Sacrament really contains You, O my God, You whom the Angels adore, in whose presence the Spirits and mighty Powers tremble. Oh! if we could onl….
If we but paused for a moment to consider attentively what takes place in this Sacrament, I am sure that the thought of Christ's love for us would tr….
Our perfection certainly consists in knowing God and ourselves..
Humility exists only in those who are poor enough to see that they possess nothing of their own..
This whole world is full of God!.
So great was my joy in God that I took no heed of looking at the angels and the saints, because all their goodness and all their beauty was from Him ….
By virtue of love is the lover transformed in the beloved and the beloved transformed in the lover..
The Sacrament [of the Holy Eucharist] is the Gift of gifts, and the Grace of graces. When the almighty and eternal God comes to us with all the perfe….
Our condition is most noble, being so beloved of the Most High God that He was willing to die for our sake- which He would not have done if man had n….
No one can be saved without divine light. Divine light causes us to begin and to make progress, and it leads us to the summit of perfection. Therefor….
Without humility of heart all the other virtues by which one runs toward God seem - and are - absolutely worthless..
Holy Scripture is so exalted that there is no one in the world ... wise enough to understand it so fully that his intellect is not overcome by it. Ne….
... God cometh sometimes unto the soul when it hath neither called, nor prayed unto, nor summoned Him. And He doth instil into the soul a fire and a ….
It is the Sacrament of Love that excites the soul to ardent prayer. It stirs up the virtue of impetration and, as it were, forces God to grant our pe….
There is neither father, nor mother, nor son, nor any other person whatsoever who can embrace the object beloved with so great a love as that wherewi….
O my soul, how can you refrain from plunging yourself ever deeper and deeper into the love of Christ, who did not forget you in life or in death, but….