«God alone knows each one’s efforts at correction.”
“We will always have to overcome our faults, born of concupiscence or atavism, and enhance the qualities or virtues germinating in our psychic being. Our hereditary physical or psychic defects will always exact of us sustained attention and will be a cause or a means of raising above self, of sanctification, with the tenacious will to draw the best from them for oneself and for others. It can be a real martyrdom to bear up under a physical deformity or to battle a fault that one would like to control quickly. God alone knows each one’s efforts at correction. He alone can judge if an error is involuntary or consented to. And that is why men’s judgment is so often erroneous and sometimes pitiless. In every case it is always necessary to shed light and to search for the truth, but with charity.”
– Marie-Paule
(The Stone Rejected Has Become the Keystone, page 64)
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“Always higher!”
“Love invites us to profit from the experience undergone by looking always higher, that is to say, to the goal of the apostolate, and by contemplating the unavoidable and painful ways of the divine Wisdom which grants peace and joy to souls of good will.”
– Marie-Paule
(The Stone Rejected Has Become the Keystone, page 67)
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“God does not forget our love...”
“God does not forget our love which pardons and which welcomes, without bitterness, the adversaries who, in their hearts, humble themselves before God in order to ascend towards Him and to sow, in their turn, a purer love for their brothers and sisters called, like them, by Him who never ceases granting graces and blessings to souls of good will.”
– Marie-Paule
(The Stone Rejected Has Become the Keystone, page 74)
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“Strength and confidence”
“It is during tribulations that we see the strength and confidence of the men and women who resist, standing firm in all dignity.”
– Marie-Paule
(The Stone Rejected Has Become the Keystone, page 73)
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“Heaven is awaiting our response of love.”
“Difficult episodes are a powerful means of purification: friendship is spiritualized, rising above the bounds of the human. We love each other in God and for God, respecting one another reciprocally. We ought to accept the other whom God calls with his capabilities and his limitations, with his qualities and his faults, just as is the case with each of us. We all have our sufferings to bear and we should accept them in the right spirit, especially when a storm of demolition is unleashed and bears down on us. The cross well accepted elevates us and love enflames the soul if, instead of lingering to consider the hand that strikes us, we look rather to heaven which is awaiting our response of love. How many consolations and joys await the hearts that have thus given themselves to God and Mary!”
– Marie-Paule
(The Stone Rejected Has Become the Keystone, page 65)
