Margaret of Cortona quotes

“In times of desolation, God conceals Himself from us so that we can discover for ourselves what we are without Him.”
-- Margaret of Cortona

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“My daughter, I see more Pharisees among Christians than there were around Pilate.”
-- Margaret of Cortona

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“This morning my soul is greater than the world since it possesses You, You whom heaven and earth do not contain”
-- Margaret of Cortona

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“Don't ask me to give in to this body of mine. I can't afford it. Between me and my body there must be a struggle until death.”
-- Margaret of Cortona

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“Hide nothing from your confessor... a sick man can be cured only by revealing his wounds.”
-- Margaret of Cortona

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“We need not take refuge in supernatural gods to explain our saints and sages and heroes and statesmen, as if to explain our disbelief that mere unaided human beings could be that good or wise.”

“None of us are saints.”

“No silver saints, by dying misers giv'n, Here brib'd the rage of ill-requited heav'n; But such plain roofs as Piety could raise, And only vocal with the Maker's praise.”

“Whether the charmer sinner it, or saint it, If folly grow romantic, I must paint it.”

“To gain your own voice, forget about having it heard. Become a saint of your own province and your own consciousness.”

“He who trusts himself is lost. He who trusts in God can do all things.”

“He who has lost only those of whose faith and truth he is sure, has not yet reached the depth of human desolation.”

Source : "The Friends of Voltaire". Book by Evelyn Beatrice Hall, 1906.

“Grace comes often clad in the dusky robe of desolation.”

“Who shall contend with time,--unvanquished time, the conqueror of conquerors and lord of desolation?”

Source : Henry Kirke White (1842). “The Works of Henry Kirke White: Containing His Life, Poems, and Melancholy Hours”, p.204

“It is difficult at times to repress the thought that history is about as instructive as an abattoir; that Tacitus was right and that peace is merely the desolation left behind after the decisive operations of merciless power.”