“True Prayer always reaches Heaven. The Angels carry it to the right place and the answer comes. Its basis is Truth, and “Not My will, but that of the Father Who sent me.””
“Say Prayer-ropes also just with “Thank you”.”
“Never expect anybody to understand you. Only God.”
“The voice of God is silence.”
“Better a Prayer of the lips than no prayer at all.”
“Do you want to Pray? Prepare yourself to meet the Lord in secret.”
“If you ever feel fear in your heart, close your eyes and say the Jesus Prayer: ‘Lord Jesus Christ have mercy upon me’…”
“O Lord! Forgive us if we sometimes walk in pride, like little cockerels that think they are great.”
“The greatest part of my prayer here and for years now is Thanksgiving. What else should I ask, when I have everything?”
“You should have continual conversation with your Guardian Angel. About everything. Especially in difficulties and when you cannot get across to someone. He always helps.”
“In the evenings, in my Prayer I say to my Angel, “Take my Soul even tonight and put it at the feet of Christ to be perfected throughout the night, and in the morning may I find it better!””
“To equalize our freedom and our autonomy and so that we may always have a sure conscience, the Joly Apostles and the Fathers of our Church gave us a guide. And thank God for that… Because the moment you ask, whether in the middle of rocky ground, up on a mountain, in a street which you don’t know, suddenly there you are… with two words he comes and gives you your answer and then you know that you are all right now.”
“The voice of God is silence.”
“Love means to respect the freedom of the other.”
“Through the invocation of the Name of Christ, we batter our ego.”
“Keep your mouth shut in the hour of crisis, when a problem is acute. Do not say anything, because you may regret it a thousand times. Instead, tell it to the Angels so that they may place it at the Lord’s Feet, and Pray the Lord for an Angel of Peace to calm your Soul.”
“The Grace of God comes when we raise our hand. It is Faith that draws God’s Grace to us. God is ‘pouring down’ His Grace, but where is the hand reaching out to receive it? Instead, we are wearing hats or carrying umbrellas…”
“Before the Lord Prayed… “Lifting up His eyes to Heaven…””
She treated everything as alive with meaning. Once she asked someone travelling to the Holy Land to greet a tree outside her cell, because it was her friend and she spoke to it often.
