Faustina Quotes

“I have heard the Lord Jesus say that, on the Day of Judgment, He will be judging the world only in terms of mercy, because God is all Mercy. And by acting out of mercy, or neglecting mercy, a person determines their own judgment.”
― Ewa K. Czaczkowska, Faustina: The Mystic and Her Message

“Jesus appeared to Helen in the chapel “in great beauty,” saying, “My daughter, do not be afraid of sufferings; I am with you” (Diary, 151).”
― Ewa K. Czaczkowska, Faustina: The Mystic and Her Message

“During this stay in Warsaw”
― Ewa K. Czaczkowska, Faustina: The Mystic and Her Message

“If a soul does not exercise mercy somehow or other, it will not obtain My mercy on the day of judgment” (Diary, 1317).”
― Ewa K. Czaczkowska, Faustina: The Mystic and Her Message

“Souls who spread the honor of My mercy I shield through their entire lives as a tender mother her infant, and at the hour of death I will not be a Judge for them but the Merciful Savior” (Diary, 1075).”
― Ewa K. Czaczkowska, Faustina: The Mystic and Her Message

“I said to the Lord, ‘Who will paint You as beautiful as You are?’ Then I heard these words, Not in the beauty of the color, nor of the brush lies the greatness of this image, but in My grace” (Diary, 313).”
― Ewa K. Czaczkowska, Faustina: The Mystic and Her Message

“Jesus, I trust in You”
― Ewa K. Czaczkowska, Faustina: The Mystic and Her Message

“O Blood and Water, which gushed forth from the Heart of Jesus as a Fount of Mercy for us, I trust in You.”
― Ewa K. Czaczkowska, Faustina: The Mystic and Her Message

“My daughter, speak to priests about this inconceivable mercy of Mine. The flames of mercy are burning Me — clamoring to be spent; I want to keep pouring them out upon souls; souls just don’t want to believe in My goodness.” After this vision, Faustina acknowledged, “throughout that whole day my spirit remained immersed in God’s tangible presence, despite the buzz and chatter that usually follow a retreat. It did not disturb me in the least” (Diary, 177).”
― Ewa K. Czaczkowska, Faustina: The Mystic and Her Message

“My love deceives no one” (Diary, 29).”
― Ewa K. Czaczkowska, Faustina: The Mystic and Her Message

“Jesus told Faustina that anyone who goes to Confession and receives Holy Communion on Divine Mercy Sunday shall be granted “complete remission of sins and punishment” (Diary, 300).”
― Ewa K. Czaczkowska, Faustina: The Mystic and Her Message

“These two rays issued forth from the very depths of My tender mercy when My agonized Heart was opened by a lance on the Cross’ (Diary, 299).”
― Ewa K. Czaczkowska, Faustina: The Mystic and Her Message

“her stay in Płock that Sr. Faustina decided, “I will not allow myself to be so absorbed in the whirlwind of work as to forget about God. I will spend all my free moments at the feet of the Master hidden in the Blessed Sacrament” (Diary, 82).”
― Ewa K. Czaczkowska, Faustina: The Mystic and Her Message

“Suddenly, I saw the Lord Jesus near me, and He graciously said to me, All this I created for you, My spouse; and know that all this beauty is nothing compared to what I have prepared for you in eternity” (Diary, 158).”
― Ewa K. Czaczkowska, Faustina: The Mystic and Her Message

“Do not weep; I am with you always” (Diary, 259).”
― Ewa K. Czaczkowska, Faustina: The Mystic and Her Message

“Even if You kill me, still will I trust in You!” she repeated in the words of Job (Diary, 77).”
― Ewa K. Czaczkowska, Faustina: The Mystic and Her Message

“Thus, Jesus showed Helen the suffering souls in purgatory for whom she should pray. He also told her: “My mercy does not want this, but justice demands it” (Diary, 20).”
― Ewa K. Czaczkowska, Faustina: The Mystic and Her Message

“In a moment I was in a misty place full of fire in which there was a great crowd of suffering souls. They were praying fervently, but to no avail, for themselves; only we can come to their aid.” She explained that her guardian angel had led her on this journey to purgatory, as recorded in her Diary. “I asked these souls what their greatest suffering was. They answered me in one voice that their greatest torment was longing for God.”
― Ewa K. Czaczkowska, Faustina: The Mystic and Her Message

“The Mother of God urged Faustina, “Speak to souls about this great mercy while it is still the time for [granting] mercy. If you keep silent now, you will be answering for a great number of souls on that terrible day. Fear nothing. Be faithful to the end. I sympathize with you” (Diary, 635).”
― Ewa K. Czaczkowska, Faustina: The Mystic and Her Message

“she had a vision of the Mother of God during meditation. Mary reminded Faustina that her task was to tell the world of the great merciful love of God. She was to prepare the world for the Second Coming of Jesus Christ, who would “come not as a merciful Savior, but as a just Judge.”
― Ewa K. Czaczkowska, Faustina: The Mystic and Her Message

“She saw an angel accompany her for the entire journey to the capital — and not for the first time (see Diary, 471, 490, 630, 706) — and then the angel disappeared when she arrived at her destination at the convent gate at Żytnia Street.”
― Ewa K. Czaczkowska, Faustina: The Mystic and Her Message

“During her stay at the Warsaw convent, Jesus dictated a prayer to Faustina that she was to offer up for sinners: “O Blood and Water, which gushed forth from the Heart of Jesus as a fount of Mercy for us, I trust in You” (Diary, 187). He also declared that when she recited this prayer “with a contrite heart and with faith on behalf of some sinner,” He would give the sinner the grace of conversion (Diary, 186).”
― Ewa K. Czaczkowska, Faustina: The Mystic and Her Message

“I will do everything in my power, but I beg You to be always with me and to give me strength to do Your Holy will” (Diary, 154).”
― Ewa K. Czaczkowska, Faustina: The Mystic and Her Message

“Do with me as You please. I subject myself to Your will” (Diary, 136),”
― Ewa K. Czaczkowska, Faustina: The Mystic and Her Message

“The more I experience suffering, the greater my desire to suffer, and when we know that the suffering is sent to us by the One whom I love, then it is no longer suffering but rather delight and happiness,” she wrote.”
― Ewa K. Czaczkowska, Faustina: The Mystic and Her Message

“She later said that God is everywhere and that one should praise Him in every place. She also mentioned something about the unification of the Churches — that it was to take place in the future.”
― Ewa K. Czaczkowska, Faustina: The Mystic and Her Message

“Jesus had foretold that she would find neither “relief nor help nor comfort” anywhere else but in Him.”
― Ewa K. Czaczkowska, Faustina: The Mystic and Her Message

“But Fr. Sopoćko, her spiritual director whom she would meet in Vilnius, recalled that when he asked her once to tell him what kinds of sins God would punish people for, she said, “particularly the sin of killing unborn children, because that is the most grievous sin of all.”
― Ewa K. Czaczkowska, Faustina: The Mystic and Her Message

“The dark night is one of the first stages in the mystical life, during which the soul is passively purified, as St. John of the Cross wrote, of everything but purity and love — that is, of everything that is not God — in order to better prepare the soul for a more intimate union with Him.”
― Ewa K. Czaczkowska, Faustina: The Mystic and Her Message

“Helen wrote in her Diary: “She told me, after a short conversation, to go to the Lord of the house and ask whether He would accept me. I understood at once that I was to ask this of the Lord Jesus. With great joy, I went to the chapel and asked Jesus, ‘Lord of this house, do You accept me? This is how one of these sisters told me to put the question to You.’ “Immediately I heard this voice: I do accept; you are in My Heart.”
― Ewa K. Czaczkowska, Faustina: The Mystic and Her Message