SAINTS - Lecture in English

Saint Gemma Galgani

For My strength is made perfect in your weakness... (2 Corinthians 12:9)

The memory of a righteous man is blessed, but the name of the wicked shall rot.. (Proverbs 10:7)

Those who trust in the LORD are like Mount Zion, which cannot be moved, but remain forever... (Psalm 125:1)

Like snow in summer, or rain in harvest, so honour is not fitting for a fool... (Proverbs 26:1)

Do you see a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.. (Proverbs 26:12)

Some trust in chariots and others in horses, but we will remember the name of the LORD our God... (Psalm 20:7)

Bill Wiese (Man Who Went To Hell) - 23 Minutes in Hell

It is He who forgives your iniquities, who heals all your diseases, who redeems your life from the pit and who crowns you with lovingkindness and compassion, who satisfies you with good things, so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s... Bless the Lord O my soul and forget none of His benefits..

Jesus said to her, "Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again, but whoever drinks of the water that I give him, shall never thirst..." (John 4:13-14)

- The satisfied soul loathes the honeycomb but to a hungry soul, every bitter thing is sweet... اَلنَّفْسُ الشَّبْعَانَةُ تَدُوسُ الْعَسَلَ، وَلِلنَّفْسِ الْجَائِعَةِ كُلُّ مُرّ حُلْوٌ

As the eyes of a servant looks to their master's hand and as the eyes of a maidservant look to the hand of her mistress, so our eyes look on the LORD our God until He shows mercy on us... (Psalm 123:2)

Bless the Lord O my soul and all that is within me bless His holy name. Bless the Lord O my soul and forget none of His benefits.. (Psalm 103:1-2)

فاقد الشيء لا يعطيه

Let nothing disturb you. Let nothing dismay you. All things are passing away. Whoever has God, lacks nothing. God alone suffices... (Therese of Avila)

Learn to be silent, so that God can speak on your behalf..

Although you grind a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with some crushed grain, yet his foolishness will not depart from him.. (Proverbs 27:22)

Do not be concerned about those who are with you or against you, but take care that God is with you in all that you do...

Behold I send you out as sheep amidst the wolves... Take nothing for the journey.. If they persecuted Me, they will persecute you also. If they listened to Me, they will listen to you also. A servant is not greater than his master..

".. and if a mother can murder her own child, there is nothing left for you not to kill me and for me not to murder you..."

Do not judge, lest you will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you yourself will be judged, and with the same measure you use, it will be used against to you. For how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ and behold the log is in your own eye? Hypocrite! First take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother’s eye... (Matthew 7:1-5)

Be a monastic in your heart rather than your outward appearance...

The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eye is good, your whole body will be full of light, but if your eye is evil, then your whole body will be filled with darkness. If then the light within you is darkness, then how great is that darkness! (Matthew 6:22-23)

Whom have I in heaven but you and earth has nothing I desire besides you.. (Psalm 73:25)

"I will not promise to make you happy in this life, but in the next..." (Our Lady to St. Bernadette)

The King's daughter is all glorious from within... (Psalm 45:13)

The young lions may suffer hunger and want, but those who trust in the Lord shall lack no good thing... (Psalm 34:10)

Some individuals come into our lives as blessings, others come as lessons..

Blessed is the man who denies himself in all things, for he shall be exalted in all...

The door that God opens, no one can shut. But what He shuts, no one can open... (Isaiah 22:22)

"The prayer of a righteous man avails much..." (James 5:16)

"For My strength is made perfect in your weakness..." (Padre Pio, stigmatist)

“Pray, hope, and don't worry. Worry is useless. God is merciful and will hear your prayer..” (Padre Pio)

Many things I have tried to grasp, and have lost. That which I have placed in God's hand I still have...

Many days went by and we cried from them but when they passed, we cried for them... (أيام كثيرة مضت و بكينا منها، ولما مضت بكينا عليها)