Gemma Galgani Quotes

#1. Can You see that as soon as the day breaks I think of You? As evening comes, I am near You. I am near You at every moment. I love You, Jesus!

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#2. I should willingly give every drop of my blood to please Him and to prevent sinners offending Him. I shall be satisfied only when I am a victim to make reparation for my innumerable sins and for the sins of all the world.

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#3. There is a school in Heaven, and there one has only to learn how to love. The school is in the Cenacle; the Teacher is Jesus; the matter taught is His Flesh and His Blood

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#4. 'Look Daughter, and learn how to love' and He showed me His five open wounds.

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#5. If you really want to love Jesus, first learn to suffer, because suffering teaches you to love.

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#6. During this same year of 1896 another desire began to grow in me. I began to feel an ever greater yearning to love Jesus Crucified very much, and at the same time a desire to suffer with him and to help him in his sufferings.

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#7. If I saw the gates of hell open and I stood on the brink of the abyss, I would not despair; I would not lose hope of mercy, because I would trust in you, my God.

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#8. Jesus, Food of strong souls, strengthen me, purify me, make me godlike

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