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René Laurentin Quotes

1917–2017 France

René Laurentin (1917 -2017) was a French priest, theologian, Roman Catholic Mariologist, and writer.

France
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There is no true love for the sinner without hatred for his sin.

Thérèse of Lisieux was one of the sources of inspiration for the philosopher Henri Bergson during the final stage of his search, in which he found God thanks to the testimony of mystics.

If heaven chooses what does not exist according to the world, it is not for the gratuitous pleasure of mocking the world.

The events at Lourdes present an order, a harmony that becomes increasingly apparent as one delves deeper.

We sinners oscillate dangerously between harshness and complicity towards others.

One is capable of mercy to the extent that one knows one is the object of mercy.

Mary shared the obscure condition of faith that is that of the other redeemed.

Lourdes does not disappoint, even though miracles remain the exception there.

Christ does not even grant her [to Mary] the satisfactions of motherhood according to the flesh, however legitimate they may be.

The Virgin [Mary] is the one in whom no sin has diminished love.

If she is our queen, we too will reign with Christ; Mary is not superior to us except in being closer to us.

Mass and the Body of Christ have become the very center of pilgrimage to Lourdes.

The mid-19th century saw the triumph of the reign of money over the medieval reign of honor and traditions.

Through the apparitions at Lourdes, Our Lady wanted to restore in us a love for the poor and for poverty, a love that is ingenious and liberating.

Conversion: this is the word that most specifically expresses the meaning of pilgrimage.

The prayer of Bernadette is contagious.

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