Oh, how great is the goodness of God, greater than we can understand. There are moments and there are mysteries of the divine mercy over which the heavens are astounded. Let our judgment of souls cease, for God's mercy upon them is extraordinary.
Interpretation
This quote reflects on the profound nature of God's goodness and mercy, urging humility in our judgments of others.
Mary Faustina Kowalska emphasizes that God's goodness and mercy are beyond human comprehension. The quote invites individuals to recognize the extraordinary nature of divine mercy and to refrain from judging others, as God's love and compassion surpass all understanding and are astoundingly generous. It serves as a reminder of the importance of humility and grace in the face of divine love.
In practice
In a sermon about forgiveness and mercy, one might quote this to illustrate the depth of God's love.
Know that My Heart is mercy itself. From this sea of mercy graces flow out upon the world....I desire that your heart be an abiding place of My mercy. I desire that this mercy flow out upon the whole world through your heart.
The tongue is a small member, but it does big things. A religious who does not keep silence will never attain holiness; that is, she will never become a saint. Let her not delude herself - unless it is the Spirit of God who is speaking through her, for then she must not keep silent. But, in order to hear the voice of God, one has to have silence in one's soul and to keep silence; not a gloomy silence but an interior silence; that is to say, recollection in God.
Jesus was not sent here to teach the people to build magnificent churches and temples amidst the cold wretched huts and dismal hovels. He came to make the human heart a temple, and the soul an altar, and the mind a priest.
If I were a Roman Catholic, I should turn a heretic, in sheer desperation, because I would rather go to heaven than go to purgatory.
The frustrating part of being tagged 'controversial' is people go looking for trouble where there isn't any to look for.
It is only the poor who are forbidden to beg.
The old saying of the two kinds of truth. To the one kind belongs statements so simple and clear that the opposite assertion obviously could not be defended. The other kind, the so-called 'deep truths', are statements in which the opposite also contains deep truth.
...skepticism can never provide firm ground under a man's feet. And perhaps, after all, we need firm ground.
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