Alacoque B B Quotes & Sayings

We must never be discouraged or give way to anxiety ... but ever have recourse to the adorable Heart of Jesus. — Margaret Mary Alacoque

Keep your heart in peace and let nothing trouble you, not even your faults. You must humble yourself and amend them peacefully, without being discouraged or cast down, for God's dwelling is in peace. — Margaret Mary Alacoque

It's frustrating to not be able to wear the same dress twice, so I don't have a go-to dress like all girls do. Renting is definitely going to be my new fashion obsession. — Nikki Reed

He will take good care to provide what is necessary for our sanctification, provided we are careful to accept everything according to His designs. — Margaret Mary Alacoque

Have recourse trustfully to Gods loving kindness and He will not forsake you, for He longs to bestow His graces. Though you may have had the misfortune to offend Him, He is always ready to receive you, provided you return humbly to Him. — Margaret Mary Alacoque

I don't dislike him, but he's too perfect. You know what I mean? Like he was genetically engineered in a lab. Imperfections make a person more attractive, give them character, don't you think? — Lou Harper

the seventeenth-century saint, Margaret Marie Alacoque, a French nun of Parayle-Monial, who founded the devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Margaret would deliberately eat cheese knowing that it made her vomit, and by her own admission she ate the vomit of sister nuns. — John Cornwell

Sometimes you caught a break, but outright freebies?
Never. — Stephen King

May faith be the torch which illuminates, animates, and sustains you. — Margaret Mary Alacoque

Although an impressive amount of business and social interaction takes place over the telephone and fax, by e-mail, or in person today, the well-written letter remains a staple of business success and one of the strongest connecting links between human beings. — Rosalie Maggio

Go courageously to God, along the way He has traced out for you, steadfastly embracing the means He offers you. — Margaret Mary Alacoque

My greatest happiness is to be before the Blessed Sacrament, where my heart is, as it were, in Its center. — Margaret Mary Alacoque

We all need mantras, I guess - stories we tell ourselves to keep us going. — Lauren Oliver

I love catching a snapshot of something that is just about to happen. Or maybe something that just happened, you know. But I like especially that just-before kind of feeling. — Demetri Martin

One just soul can attain pardon for a thousand sinners. — Margaret Mary Alacoque

There are thoughts we must not think. — Friedrich Durrenmatt

It is attachment to creatures and to self-satisfaction that weakens the blessings of love in your heart. You must die to all that, if you wish the pure love of God to reign therein. — Margaret Mary Alacoque

I speak as briefly as possible because too much harm has already been done with irresponsible words of bitterness and selfish political opportunism. I speak as simply as possible because the issue is too great to be obscured by eloquence. I speak simply and briefly in the hope that my words will be taken to heart. — Margaret Chase Smith

When I was 17 or 18 and it was time to figure out what to do with my life, I realized that I didn't enjoy anything as much as I enjoyed playing music. I felt that I had no choice: that I had to become a musician. — David Sanborn

Let every knee bend before Thee, O greatness of my God, so supremely humbled in the Sacred Host. May every heart love Thee, every spirit adore Thee and every will be subject to Thee! — Margaret Mary Alacoque

I think He intends to try you like gold in the crucible, so as to number you amongst His most faithful servants. Therefore you must lovingly embrace all occasions of suffering, considering them as precious tokens of His love. To suffer in silence and without complaint is what He asks of you. — Margaret Mary Alacoque

Since God wishes it - there is nothing to be done ... Why should you thus torment yourself? Get rid of whatever He shows you to be an obstacle to His love, for His only desire is that you should live stripped of all that is not Himself. — Margaret Mary Alacoque

Let us begin in earnest to work out our salvation, for no one will do it for us, since even He Himself, Who made us without ourselves, will not save us without ourselves. — Margaret Mary Alacoque

It was as if her own heart had been surgically removed from her body and was being kept at a remote location, still connected to her and pumping blood through her veins, but exposed to dangers she couldn't see: her heart in a box somewhere, in the open air, unprotected. — Jeffrey Eugenides

We must submit to the Will of God and kiss the hand that strikes us, for we know it is better to suffer in this life than in the next, since one moment of suffering willingly accepted for the love God, is worth an eternity of happiness. — Margaret Mary Alacoque

O my Saviour, who am I, that Thou shouldst have so long awaited my repentance! — Margaret Mary Alacoque

Sometimes the thoughts in my head get so bored they go out for a stroll through my mouth. This is rarely a good thing. — Scott Westerfeld

Function and man appear synonymous because the function can only be pointed toward by being the function. There is no being except in a mode of being. [ ... ] Both scholar and Christian are functioning in identical ways, just under different metaphor, and both are evading the mechanics of being. — Joseph Chilton Pearce

I need nothing but God, and to lose myself in the heart of God. — Margaret Mary Alacoque

Do nothing through human respect and, when it assails you, say: I shall do neither more nor less for the eyes of creatures. O my God, since I wish to please Thee alone, it suffices that Thou seest me everywhere. — Margaret Mary Alacoque

I don't regret it, you know. I would do it all again. Children are our hope for the future."
THERE IS NO HOPE FOR THE FUTURE, said Death.
"What does it contain, then?"
ME. — Terry Pratchett

Do not distress yourself on account of any distaste or dryness you experience in God's service. He wills that you should serve Him fervently and constantly it is true, but without any other help than simple faith, and thus your love will be more disinterested, and your service the more pleasing to Him. — Margaret Mary Alacoque

Until we have acquired genuine prayer, we are like people teaching children to begin to walk. — Margaret Mary Alacoque

Look upon yourself as a tree planted beside the water, which bears its fruit in due season; the more it is shaken by the wind, the deeper it strikes its roots into the ground. — Margaret Mary Alacoque

But above all preserve peace of heart. This is more valuable than any treasure. — Margaret Mary Alacoque

The cross is a precious treasure to be kept secret, lest we be robbed of it. — Margaret Mary Alacoque

Cling to God, and leave all the rest to Him: He will not let you perish. Your soul is very dear to Him, He wishes to save it. — Margaret Mary Alacoque

All for the Eucharist; nothing for me — Margaret Mary Alacoque

The significance of the law of love is precisely that it is not just another law, but a law which transcends all law. — Reinhold Niebuhr

Crosses, contempt, sorrows and afflictions are the real treasures of the lovers of Jesus Christ crucified — Margaret Mary Alacoque