Chiara Lubich famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Lose everything, even the attachment to holiness, so that you aim only at one thing: to love
-- Chiara Lubich

#Attachment #Holiness #Aim
In life we do many things, say many things, but the voice of suffering offered out of love - which is perhaps unheard by and unknown to others - is the loudest cry that can penetrate Heaven
-- Chiara Lubich

#Voice #Heaven #Suffering
We discovered, like infants opening their eyes for the first time, that God's coming upon earth out of love for us had radically changed the world, because he had remained with us. As we walked about the city, or traveled to different cities and countries, it was not the beautiful and interesting things around us that attracted us. Not even Rome's wonderful monuments and precious relics seemed so important. Rather, what gave a sense of continuity to our journeying through the world for Jesus, was His Eucharistic presence in the tabernacles we found wherever we went.
-- Chiara Lubich

#Beautiful #Country #Jesus
Be aware that the fire that does not grow is extinguished.
-- Chiara Lubich

#Fire #Doe #Grows
When we worship you in the form of bread... we always see you as an adult. But every year at Christmas, you reveal yourself to us as a child born in a crib. We stand in silent amazement...In silent adoration we stand before the mystery, like Mary when the shepherd came and told her what they had seen and heard: 'She kept all these things, pondering them in her heart.'
-- Chiara Lubich

#Children #Heart #Years

You must choose between your attachments and happiness.
Whoever you are, you are human. Wherever you are, you live in the world, which is just waiting for you to notice the holiness in it.
Our holiness is an effect, not a cause; so long as our eyes are on our own personal whiteness as an end in itself, the thing breaks down.
To get the medium's magic to work for one's aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.
God has never ceased to be the one true aim of all right human aspirations.
Aim at a high mark and you will hit it.
Unity is surely the indispensable thing if meaning is to exist. Unity, to be very general, is the establishment of the utmost relatedness between all component parts... the aim is to make as clear as possible the relationships between the parts of the unity; in short, to show how one thing leads to another.
I have one aimâ€”the grotesque. If I am not grotesque I am nothing.
If you want to hit a man in the chest, aim for his groin.
The maxims tell you to aim at perfection, which is well; but it's unattainable, all the same.

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