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Marthe Robin Quotes

1902–1981 France

France

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If Mary is full of grace, it is because she is the Mother of God.

Transforming all my actions into supernatural and divine actions is the most beautiful of truths, it is the greatest and ultimate word of love.

God does what he says: it is evident in his creation.

The sight of priests has always moved me.

The role of Our Lady is to take care of the details, all the details; it is her maternal function that leads her to this.

Theology is a magnificent science; it is theologians who are boring.

Do not leave poisons on the bedside tables of the sick.

I have always prayed enormously in my life.

To live in the heart of Christ, in the heart of the Trinity, one must live with Mary.

The priest encouraged me to pray without saying anything to me.

My life is a continuous Mass. I never feel that my bed is a bed; it is an altar, it is a cross.

One never implores Mary in vain. I have firm faith that she will grant my request because I believe that we have no other hope than to turn to Divine Providence, which never abandons anyone.

I don't like reading the lives of saints because each one has their own nuances. I prefer doctrine, not imitation.

It does not occur to me to kneel [before Our Lady] but to fly towards her, not to ask, but with a feeling of gratitude and love.

I believe that my first Communion in private was a taking possession by Our Lord; I believe he took possession of me at that moment.

Suffering teaches charity, abandonment to God, detachment. Suffering teaches us to see and understand. Suffering teaches us to alleviate, to sympathize, to console those who suffer.

I want to bring many, many souls to Jesus with my love alone and the entire offering of my sick life, with no other will than that of my God, or rather, with my will fully united to that of my God.

(In respect of suicide) because it was not her days she wanted to end, but the pain that tortured her.

Jesus did not promise to take away our cross. He told us to carry it on our shoulders, but with Jesus, the cross becomes all love.

I loved the sick very much and would have crossed mountains and valleys, if they had let me, to visit a sick person, not to cure them, but to love them

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Marthe Robin (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.