Magnify Quotes

“Mary, I depend on you totally as a child on its mother, that in return you may possess me, protect me, and transform me into Jesus. May the light of your faith dispel the darkness of my mind; may your profound humility take the place of my pride; may your contemplation replace the distractions of my wandering imagination; and may your virtues take the place of my sins. Lead me deeper into the mystery of the cross that you may share your experience of Jesus’s thirst with me. O most pure heart of Mary, allow me to enter your heart, to share your interior life. You see and know my needs, help me to do “whatever Jesus tells me” … that my human needs may be changed into thirst for God alone. I desire to discover, satiate, and proclaim Jesus’s thirst, but I know all too well my weakness, nothingness, and sin. Mother, may this covenant of consecration with you be the hidden strength in my life that you may use me to satiate your Son to the full. Let this be my only joy…and you will be the cause of that joy.” – St. Teresa of Calcutta (Mother Teresa. Angelo D. Scolozzi, editor. Thirsting”
― Kaylene M Brown, Magnify: pursuing virtue as a feminine genius

“Lord, keep your grace in my heart. Live in me so that Your grace may be mine. Make it that I may bear everyday some flowers and new fruit.” – St. Gianna”
― Kaylene M Brown, Magnify: pursuing virtue as a feminine genius

“Strive for peace with all men, and for the holiness without which no one will see the Lord.”
― Kaylene M Brown, Magnify: pursuing virtue as a feminine genius

“For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant; later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.”
― Kaylene M Brown, Magnify: pursuing virtue as a feminine genius

“Her calmness through her sufferings serve as a testament to a virtuous soul that knew Heaven is infinitely better than earth—and if God permits bodily death, it is so that more good can be brought from it.”
― Kaylene M Brown, Magnify: pursuing virtue as a feminine genius

“Let go of your plans. The first hour of your morning belongs to God. Tackle the day’s work that he charges you with, and he will give you the power to accomplish it.”
― Kaylene M Brown, Magnify: pursuing virtue as a feminine genius

“Everyone around us has equal dignity, and we can’t trample over it through a pursuit of power and control; in fact, we want to magnify the Lord so that others recognize their own dignity!”
― Kaylene M Brown, Magnify: pursuing virtue as a feminine genius

“The important key for Christian women to combat the prideful and false “neo-feminist” mantras in the secular world is to recall that God is never supposed to be “in balance” with everything else in our life. The glory of God must flood every corner of our lives. That’s the very definition of Him being our Lord. He’s everywhere and sees everything, so we live our lives accordingly. We don’t turn our femininity into an idol.”
― Kaylene M Brown, Magnify: pursuing virtue as a feminine genius

“CCC 970: "Mary's function as mother of men in no way obscures or diminishes this unique mediation of Christ, but rather shows its power. But the Blessed Virgin's salutary influence on men . . . flows forth from the superabundance of the merits of Christ, rests on his mediation, depends entirely on it, and draws all its power from it.”
― Kaylene M Brown, Magnify: pursuing virtue as a feminine genius