Of Men and Mary Quotes

“Dear children, this is my advice. I would like to conquer some fault each day. If your fault is to get angry at everything, try each day to get angry less. If your fault is not to be able to study, try to study. If your fault is not to be able to obey, or if you cannot stand those who do not please you, try on a given day to speak with them. If your fault is not to be able to stand an arrogant person, you should try to approach that person. If you desire that person to be humble, be humble yourselves. Show that humility is worth more than pride. Each day, try to go beyond, and to reject every vice from your heart. Find out which are the vices that you most need to reject. Try truly to desire to spend your life in real love. Strive as much as possible. 6”
― Christine Watkins, Of Men and Mary: How Six Men Won the Greatest Battle of Their Lives

“He had a simple plan for us to love him and love each other: he would make us in his very image, give us free will, love us as his very own, and provide all that we needed and more. In return, all he desired was that we love him back. But instead of returning the love that he continued to lavish upon the world, we gave back to him cold indifference. We profoundly altered and complicated his plan to the point that we found life a burden instead of a blessing.”
― Christine Watkins, Of Men and Mary: How Six Men Won the Greatest Battle of Their Lives

“All of a sudden, I wasn’t alone. For the first time since I had been pulled away from the light of God, I felt a tender reassurance that all would be okay. My peace and comfort would not come from standing in front of large crowds, shouting out that I believed, and that they should too. It would come from spending time alone in front of the True Presence of Jesus, night after night, in prayer.”
― Christine Watkins, Of Men and Mary: How Six Men Won the Greatest Battle of Their Lives

“At the conclusion of the press conference, in which he urged everyone to bring the light of Medjugorje “to the world that is sinking into darkness. . . ,” he stated, “You, my dear friends, should be the carriers of the joyful news. Say to the whole”
― Christine Watkins, Of Men and Mary: How Six Men Won the Greatest Battle of Their Lives

“Tens of millions of pilgrims from all over the world have been to Medjugorje, including hundreds of bishops, dozens of archbishops, a handful of cardinals, and many thousands of priests who have publicly visited Medjugorje.12 This does not include all of the clerics who have chosen to go privately for their own personal pilgrimage.13 Each day, villagers and pilgrims pray for hours in the local church, while others wait in the long lines for Confession”
― Christine Watkins, Of Men and Mary: How Six Men Won the Greatest Battle of Their Lives

“. . . Jesus said, ‘This sickness will not end in death. No, it is for God’s glory so that God’s Son may be glorified through it’” (John 11:14).”
― Christine Watkins, Of Men and Mary: How Six Men Won the Greatest Battle of Their Lives

“Sr. Faustina Kowalska, the saint of Divine Mercy,”
― Christine Watkins, Of Men and Mary: How Six Men Won the Greatest Battle of Their Lives

“Somehow, I simply knew things without having to think about them. Only years later did I learn that this kind of knowing is called “infused knowledge,” a term coined by St. Thomas Aquinas wherein knowledge comes from one direction only—God. The mind doesn’t deliberate over a subject and arrive at a conclusion, but simply knows and comprehends, without any effort or receptivity of its own.”
― Christine Watkins, Of Men and Mary: How Six Men Won the Greatest Battle of Their Lives

“should continue.”4 At the conclusion of the press conference, in which he urged everyone to bring the light of Medjugorje “to the world that is sinking into darkness. . . ,” he stated, “You, my dear friends, should be the carriers of the joyful news. Say to the whole world that in Medjugorje we can find the light again!”5”
― Christine Watkins, Of Men and Mary: How Six Men Won the Greatest Battle of Their Lives

“and to be loved because God is Love. This fundamental truth is written into every human heart. Everyone knows what”
― Christine Watkins, Of Men and Mary: How Six Men Won the Greatest Battle of Their Lives