Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich Quotes

Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich Quotes

The prayer most pleasing to God is that made for others and particularly for the poor souls. Pray for them, if you want your prayers to bring high interest.

Were man and the earth in perfect harmony, there would be paradise here below. Prayer governs the weather . . . I see the life of nature intimately connected with that of the soul.

The poor souls suffer inexpressibly." "Many stay a long time in purgatory who, although not great sinners, have lived tepidly.

Man's value before God is estimated by the dispositions of his heart, its uprightness, its good-will, its charity, and not by keenness of intellect or extent of knowledge.

Now, for all who are not in living union with Jesus Christ by faith and grace, nature is full of Satan's influence.

I can never grieve for a person who dies resignedly, nor for a child suffering patiently; for patient suffering is the most enviable state of man.

I have had a great vision on the mystery of Holy Mass and I have seen that whatever good has existed since creation is owing to it."

I saw Adam's bones reposing in a cavern under Mt. Calvary deep down, almost to water level, and in a straight line beneath the spot on which Jesus Christ was crucified.

O who can tell the beauty, the purity, the innocence of Mary! She knows everything, and yet she seems to know nothing, so childlike is she. She lowers her eyes and, when she looks up, her glance penetrates like a ray, like a pure beam of light, like truth itself! It is because she is perfectly innocent, full of God, and without returns upon self. None can resist her grace.

Now I saw clearly by this that the dear God looks only at the heart in time of prayer.

Owing to the spirit of the world and tepidity, if the Savior returned to earth today to announce His doctrine in person, He would find as many opponents as He did among the Jews.

Then I had the sweet assurance that Mary is the Church; the Church, our mother; God, our father; and Jesus, our brother.

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