Quotes and Sayings

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"Love can only be consoled with love!"

"Let us form our hearts in the school of the Heart of Mary."

"May love triumph in the human heart!"

"The world needs witnesses of love to the extreme!"

"Only love triumphs. Selfishness is always a defeat."

"The triumph of love comes about when the Holy Spirit takes from us our heart of stone and gives us a heart of flesh."

"The emblem of love is the Heart of Jesus, the Heart of God made man, it is the place of encounter between the two loves, that of heaven and earth."

"The Eucharist is the gift par excellence of the Sacred Heart. We can not understand the Eucharist without understanding the love of the Heart of Jesus."

"To contemplate the Heart of Jesus is to contemplate His Love, love that is capable of transforming our hearts of stone into hearts of flesh." (cf. Ez 36:26)

"Our ears have not heard, our eyes have not seen what the power of love can create. Love has the power to transform impossibilities into simple realities."

"Do not waste all your time by looking down when there are so many wonders to contemplate."

"Our human dignity is manifested in that capacity to choose love when the forces of selfishness are so strongly fighting inside of us, calling us to be less than what are capable of being."

"Love always triumph when we choose to freely rise above our fears and hurts. Love is the strength and the force of the human heart... therefore, love is your truest and fullest identity."

"When we are faced with choosing between two different paths: love or fear, self-denial or self-preservation, generosity or selfishness, expanding the heart or closing it, it is precisely at that moment that we need to be witnesses to love."

"Advent is a Marian time...and we must live it with a particular Marian expression: to live it from within the maternal and expecting heart of Mary, to enter into the mystery of her maternity, in her joyful waiting, in her sublime preparation, to come to contemplate, in her arms, the Word made flesh".

"Let us contemplate the Child Jesus! That we may become what we contemplate and reflect to others what we become."

"The triumph of the Immaculate Heart is the Triumph of the Church."

"True spiritual life does not annihilate human nature rather it elevates it and perfect it."

"Only love makes the surrendering of one's life a joyful and beautiful gift."

"Only love makes losing one's life a fruitful experience of gain."

"If only we would know the love of Christ's Heart...if only we would run after love instead of running away from it."

"Poverty does not mean having nothing, being insufficient, but living by what is sufficient according to God"

"Enter into the Pierced Heart of Jesus. To enter means to draw near, to draw closer to His Heart... to allow ourselves  to touch and be touched by the mystery of His Love. The one who draws near, the one who enters, participates more closely of the effects of His love."

"Love is not understood. Love is not known. We can not choose love unless we know love".

"Love is a mystery, as much as it is a gift. Love is a mystery that is to be pondered and allowed to grow...this growth expands the heart and matures it for generosity".

"Love must be recognized by the actions it produces."

"Love has no limits.... let us expand our hearts to love!"

"Love must be visible, love must be perceived for love to be credible! "

"Conquer hearts by loving them!"

"Love in essence is always seeking to be given away... "

"We can only understand the redemptive power of suffering, if we contemplate it from the Cross of Christ, and we explain it through the language of love."

"Life is such a fruit of love!!! When love is chosen, when life is chosen even when it seems so difficult to be delivered, it becomes a testimony of love. Life is always a choice of love..."

"We must not be afraid to speak about love. We must have the courage to speak about love, to believe in love, to live love and to witness to love."

"Only love makes the surrendering of one's life a joyful and beautiful gift. Only love makes losing one's life a fruitful experience of gain."

"Freedom of the heart is the capacity to love, to give ourselves unconditionally and totally, without reserve."

"Only love, the pure love of the human heart, is the soil in which the seed, the Word, can be conceived, be fruitful and multiply."

"Love is possible; it becomes so as a fruit of the most intimate communion of heart with the Heart of God."

“The triumph of love is the triumph of the wisdom and the logic of the Cross. The Wisdom of the Cross transcends all human wisdom. It demolishes the selfish, comfortable and easy solutions of human wisdom. The Wisdom of the Cross is a scandal to the mentality and ways of our flesh and of the world: it is the triumph of love and the triumph of light. This Wisdom must be known and received, thus it can transform the interior path of the human heart”.

“We need to form our hearts in the Science of Love to allow love to inform, illuminate and direct our decisions and choices. May this Wisdom of Love become incarnate in the choices we make."

"Love and Responsibility can never be separated, for Love is enfleshed in the responsible choices of the human heart."

"We are called to profess, to witness and proclaim that love is not only possible, but that love is the only way for the human heart to become fully who we are."

"Yes, the Family is to be a Home of Love…. a home where authentic love is taught with simplicity and courage, where love is believed to be possible, not a utopia."

"There is nothing that elevates and expands more the human heart than love, humility, obedience, service, and littleness."

"I see history as the unfolding of the Father's designs of love in total dialogue with the human heart, with its fiats and no's...and the mercy of God's love turning every moment, every response into a greater triumph of love and for love."

"Every act of love of the human heart is a smile in God's Heart"

" A very dignifying language, proper to the new civilization of love and the dignity of the human person, is a language that brings the power of the Word into our human realities."

"Only Love gives the deepest response and the salvific meaning to human suffering."

"Love must be visible and perceptible. If it is not, it is a false or distorted image of love, or simply, an absent image of love.”


"Let us contemplate the joys and sufferings of the heart of St. Joseph, the heart that placed the gift of himself totally at the service of the work of salvation. The heart that participated in this plan with the total and complete gift of his self oblation for the Mother and the Child; and found in this vocation of oblation, the most sublime and elevated realization of his humanity and his masculine heart.”

"Love must be perceptible, tangible, visible in its expressions, its acts and its fruit. Love is the potency of acts, acts are the concrete options of love, and these acts big or small, silent or known are always fecund, capable of transforming the human person, the family, the Church, society, the world and finally, history."

“A path of formation, purification, maturation and elevation in authentic love, should be communicated and should be taught to many hearts:
an incarnated love in the daily concrete options of each vocation!”

“Love is perfect...and only love perfects the human heart.”

“We should go out to the whole world and offer the treasure that we have received, treasure that enriches our heart, enriches the whole Church, treasure that has been placed in our hands and that many, many still do not know.”

“The humanity of today…is in need of the missionary ardor of men and women that, in total communion with the heart of the Church, set out with generosity, courage and enthusiasm to refresh the world.”

“The hour has arrived for us to go out under the gaze of Our Mother, under her starred mantle, under her luminous direction and voice, and insider her fecund womb…cooperating with our candles lit for the Church in America to be a star in the New Evangelization.” 

“Love…ignites the heart, places us in movement, and incites us into motion with missionary ardor to be Witnesses, Apostles and Messengers of the Love of God.”

“God is Love … He is the way, the truth and the life of man- the full realization of his healing, liberation, redemption and elevation. Love is man’s only and permanent happiness!”

“The world of today, the nations of today, the men and women of today, the marriages of today, the families of today, are all hungry and thirsty for authentic Love, for the only Love that can satiate and respond to the profound restlessness in his heart.”

“The time has come that the Witnesses of Love, those of us who have contemplated, have heard, have experienced his powerful effects, have seen the light, who have touched, who have been formed in Love—to set out with ardor and promptitude to go out into the deep, into the ocean of humanity and of history.”

“This missionary ardor of the Blessed Mother that goes throughout the world to preach the Gospel, as we have seen in the Marian Apparitions -Visitations (as in Guadalupe), precedes the ‘going out into the deep’ of the Petrine Principle.”

“Simplicity of heart is the key to peace.”

“The ‘going out into the deep’ of the Blessed Mother takes place when the Bark of her ‘blessed and fecund womb’ brings Jesus within her.”

“This love that has been given to us like a gratuitous gift, this understanding that love is the essence and vocation of the human family, this formation in the paths and elevation of the heart to live the heights of the life of love of the Hearts of Jesus and the Heart of his Mother, this gift- is also our great task!”

“From the womb of the Blessed Mother, Jesus, God-made-Man, begins to communicate the effects of the redemption: His salvation.”

“Jesus is born and grows in the House of Nazareth, and begins from that interior life of the family—to save humanity.”

“When [Jesus] began His public mission, He preached and presented the Gospel of the Kingdom from the mountains and from the bark – His two pulpits.”

"We are at the service of the 'New Evangelization' following the vision of H.H. John Paul II: new in ardor, methods, and expression so as to build the civilization of love and life."

“We should have the Marian spirit of generosity and promptitude, but not of impulsiveness, so that we can ‘go out in haste to serve’”

“Love is man’s highest dignity.”

“Every vocation is a response to the love of God that calls the human heart to give itself completely and unconditionally. At the root of every vocation is the call to the total and generous gift of self.”

"Love Incarnate allowed Himself to be wounded...allowed Himself to be crucified. Love was wounded and Love conquered! ”

“We should have the spirit of obedience and the confidence of St. Peter to be able to say: ‘If you command it, I will lower the nets.’” 

"The Eucharist is the outstanding gift of love of the Sacred Heart. We can not understand the Eucharist unless we understand the love of the Heart of Jesus."

"The sign of authentic love is that the sacrifice is offered freely."

"It is the Love of God that allows the human heart to find its rest, its healing, its restoration."

"Only the religion that teaches the love of God and brethren can perfect the human person.  Jesus has taught us what perfect love is.  The Incarnation is the entrance of God into human life – into his culture, work, and environment – in order to transform it.  Culture, to be authentically human, must accept love."

"To love as He has loved us we need to enter into His Heart and to learn from Him the true dimensions of love.  We cannot conform ourselves with living less than love."

"Man’s happiness and fulfillment is to know that he is loved by God. Man’s happiness is to know that he is loved by his Father and his Creator."

"Behold!! I am the servant of the Lord! What a title! what and identity that permeated all her mission. She, who was chosen to be the Mother of the Redeemer of men, gave the sincere and total gift of self to the Lord and to humanity. Her love was rooted, in her inmaculate self giving, and in her simple yet profounf identity: to be a servant!"

"The time has come for us to set out in haste, to advance through the oceans of the world and to anounce with humility, joy and profound conviction, the salvific power of the Gospel. The time has come to go out into the deep..."

"We are capable of heroic choices of love...do not settle for less."

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