Chiara Lubich Quotes
1920–2008 Italy
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Pain is a gift that God gives to His creatures.
If we have experienced that what Jesus says is “all true,” it is easy to leave every other teacher for Him.
To love, Christians must do as God does: not expect to be loved, but love “first.”
The first quality of Christian love is to love everyone.
Using language that is quite familiar today, we can say that love knows “no form of discrimination.”
Saint Thérèse and the followers of the little way seem to perpetuate the words: “Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the Kingdom of Heaven.” (Mt 18:3).
If we have the heart of a mother or, more precisely, if we set out to have the heart of the Mother par excellence: Mary, we will always be ready to love.
Who is our neighbor? We know we don't have to look far: our neighbor is the brother who passes by us.
The focolarini see in Mary that person who, because she was faithful to her particular task, participated in the life of all humanity.
To be Christian, we must love our neighbor now. So not a platonic love, not an ideal love: active love.
Let us love one another! We will all meet again one day up there, united for all eternity, if we have had the courage to love one another without excuses here below. (undated, 1944?)
The virgin is the one who advances without support, only with God. (October 31, 1968)
Of course, keeping Christmas and banishing the Newborn is something that causes pain. (November 22, 1980)
Mary did not go to Elizabeth to sing the Magnificat, but to help her. So we, too, should not go to our neighbors to reveal the Christian treasure we carry in our hearts, but to share their sorrows and burdens and to share their joys and responsibilities.
Today, in our consumer society, there is only one thing we want to save: time. (October 19, 1970)
I think that our religions have the medicine to cure this sick world and restore it to health, harmony, and peace. (March 8, 1990)
None of those who enter into God are lost. (December 13, 1968)
Virginity pleasing to God lies not only in physical virginity, but in that spiritual attitude which is “non-existence” for oneself, so that we may all be always for God. (October 31, 1968)
Truly great events arise from small things. (January 10, 1978)
“Peace” is the effect of unity. (November 24, 1985)