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.
Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.
If you find life absurd, shouldn’t you find death precisely meaningful?
There is no God. But it does not matter. Man is enough.
I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at commensurate speed.
Racism cannot be separated from capitalism.
From the apparent usefulness of the social virtues, it has readily been inferred by sceptics, both ancient and modern, that all moral distinctions arise from education, and were, at first, invented, and afterwards encouraged ... in order to render men tractable, and subdue their natural ferocity and selfishness, which incapacitated them for society.
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