Chiara Corbella Petrillo Quotes

“We do not define ourselves as men or as women through our work, our house, our health, or our reputation. We define ourselves as men and women through the way we love.”
― Simone Troisi, Chiara Corbella Petrillo

“To discover that you are loved is the center of all existence. And when we are filled with this total and delirious love, little by little, we grow and love in turn. That gradualness in our journeys is a sign of the infinite tenderness of God.”
― Simone Troisi, Chiara Corbella Petrillo

“Then Father Vito gave me this verse for my meditation: ‘When God opens a door, no one closes it; when God closes it, no one opens it.’ [cf. Rev. 3:7].”
― Simone Troisi, Chiara Corbella Petrillo

“In love one cannot be mediocre, nor can one sustain love without work. The choices in the past were not enough, and it was necessary to choose again.”
― Simone Troisi, Chiara Corbella Petrillo

“Whoever thinks from a distance about his situation lives it with suffering; whoever is close to it lives it with consolation, the fruit of a true wisdom.”
― Simone Troisi, Chiara Corbella Petrillo

“On the flight, before touching ground, we became aware of what we truly were: pilgrims reaching toward Heaven.”
― Simone Troisi, Chiara Corbella Petrillo

“Strength comes in making space, in trusting yourself, in truly believing that God is good and that He has only astonishing things in mind for you.”
― Simone Troisi, Chiara Corbella Petrillo

“The heart is a land we do not know well; neither its boundaries and frontiers, nor its miseries and grandeurs.”
― Simone Troisi, Chiara Corbella Petrillo

“At this point, Chiara said 'Well, even if I ask Him for a cure - and I am asking Him - perhaps God knows what I truly want.'
Chiara was like the man born blind, God's work was appearing in her. (cf John 9:1-38)
'With these words,' Enrico explained, 'Chiara was revealing to me that there was within her an intimacy of which she herself was not aware, that intimacy was the place where God dwells.”
― Simone Troisi, Chiara Corbella Petrillo

“Si estás amando de verdad, lo reconocerás en el hecho de que nada te pertenece porque todo es un don.”
― Simone Troisi, Nacemos para no morir nunca (Palabra Hoy)

“But during the Prayer of the Faithful, she gave thanks for all the babies present and for their voices, because, she said, they show us what we are; we are capricious when we wish to tell God what to do.”
― Simone Troisi, Chiara Corbella Petrillo

“At this point, Chiara said 'Well, even if I ask Him for a cure - and I am asking Him - perhaps God knows what I truly want.'
Chiara was like the man born blind, God's work was appearing in her. (cf John 9:1-38)
'With these words,' Enrico explained, 'Chiara was revealing to me that there was within her an intimacy of which she herself was not aware, that intimacy was the place where God dwells. The heart is a land we do not know well, neither its boundaries and frontiers, nor its miseries and grandeurs. In her profundity, nights and dawns were alternating, and we could discover some places only at the right moment.”
― Simone Troisi, Chiara Corbella Petrillo

“Love completely possessed her, in the only way that one could be completely possessed by something, in the Lord.”
― Simone Troisi, Chiara Corbella Petrillo

“Peace be with you,” Pope Francis said. “This is not a greeting nor even a simple good wish: it is a gift, indeed, the precious gift that Christ offered his disciples after he had passed through death and hell.” (Regina Caeli, April 7, 2013). Peace is experienced by the one who allows himself to be loved.”
― Simone Troisi, Chiara Corbella Petrillo