Words of Mercy

Quotes from Saint Faustina's Diary.

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Me, they leave Me on My own and are busy with other things. Oh, how sad I am that souls have not recognised Love. They treat Me like an inanimate object.

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I want to unite with human souls; it is my delight to unite with souls. Know this, My daughter, that whenever I come into a human heart in Holy Communion, My arms are full of all manner of graces and I want to give them to the soul, but some souls don't even pay any attention to

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(...) If I were to reveal to you the full extent of your nothingness, you'd die of horror. (...)

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The more a soul wants to experience God's great mercy, the more trustfully it should come to God, and if its trust in God is boundless, God's mercy upon it will be boundless, too.

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When you ponder on what I tell you in the depths of your soul, you profit more than if you were to read many books. Oh, if only souls would listen to My voice when I speak to them in the depth of their heart, they would soon reach the very peak of sanctity.

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fill up all that is wanting in us.

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Oh, if only souls would listen, just a little, to the voice of their conscience, listen to the voice, that is to the inspiration that comes from the Holy Spirit, just a little, I shall say — because once we submit to the influence of the Divine Spirit, He Himself will supply and

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Come ye all to Me.

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Let every soul pray for actual grace whenever habitual grace proves insufficient.

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O Jesus, in the depths of my soul I know that the greatest of works bear no comparison with a single act of pure love for You.

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look for Me in their own hearts, but in their talkativeness, where I am never present.

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There are some souls in which I can do nothing; they are the souls who are constantly watching others, but do not know what is going on in themselves. They are talking about others all the time, (...) Poor souls, they don't hear My words, their interiors remain empty; they do not

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O, how sweet it is to keep those things the Church tells us to believe deep in my soul. When my soul is steeped in love, I can understand and quickly unravel the most complex things. Only love is able to pass over precipices and mountain-tops: love, and love yet again.

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I reward not for a successful result, but for patience and effort made on My account.

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placated, and unfathomed mercy embraces the soul, and the depths of My mercy are moved, for the sake Of My Son's sorrowful Passion.

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I shall treat every soul that says this Chaplet as My glory, and I shall grant it My defence at the hour of death; also those at whose deathbed others say the Chaplet shall be granted the same indulgence. When people say the Chaplet at a dying person's bedside, God's anger is

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to any of the souls you bring to the fount of My mercy. (...)

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(... [Novena to the Divine Mercy]) Each day you shall bring a different group of souls to My Heart, and immerse them in this sea of My mercy. And I shall lead all of these souls into My Father's house. You shall do this in this life and in the next. I shall never refuse anything

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(...) as there are three ways to perform mercy: by word, forgiveness and consolation; secondly, if you can't do mercy by word, then by prayer, that's mercy, too; and thirdly, by works of mercy.

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([on the new congregation's three colours]) The third [colour] denotes prayer and merciful deeds not bound by any vows, but people who perform these things shall have a share in all the merits and privileges of the entire work. Anyone alive on Earth may belong to this colour.