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Maximilian Kolbe
12 quotes
“He who loves will know the Immaculata much more than a philosopher or a theologian.”
Maximilian Kolbe (1894–1941) said by 1941 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He who wants to live the supernatural life clings to the Mother of Divine Grace. He who wants to convert and sanctify himself must have recourse to the Mother of God, for she is the Mediatrix of all graces. This mystery, that we receive everything through the Immaculata, is still little known. That is why we must propagate it; more, we must conquer the whole world to the Immaculata.”
Maximilian Kolbe (1894–1941) said by 1941 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Modern times are dominated by Satan and will be more so in the future. The conflict with Hell cannot be engaged by men, even the most clever. The Immaculata alone has from God the promise of victory over Satan.”
Maximilian Kolbe (1894–1941) said by 1941 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A person is great and becomes a witness and a teacher, capable of leaving an authentic message to the world, not so much on account of what one says or writes, but for what one is and what one achieves. What one says or writes deserves attention only insomuch as it is an expression of what one is or does.”
Maximilian Kolbe (1894–1941) said by 1941 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“No one in the world can change Truth. What we can do and should do is to seek truth and to serve it when we have found it. The real conflict is the inner conflict. Beyond armies of occupation and the hetacombs of extermination camps, there are two irreconcilable enemies in the depth of every soul: good and evil, sin and love. And what use are the victories on the battlefield if we are ourselves are defeated in our innermost personal selves?”
Maximilian Kolbe (1894–1941) said by 1941 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Hate is not a creative force. Love is a creative force.”
Maximilian Kolbe (1894–1941) said by 1941 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I want to be the greatest. But in what? In loving people and loving God!”
Maximilian Kolbe (1894–1941) said by 1941 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“External activity is good; but, it is obviously of secondary importance and lesser still in comparison with the interior life, the life of recollection and of prayer, with the life of our personal love towards God”
Maximilian Kolbe (1894–1941) said by 1941 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I am not able to believe that man is a perfected ape. We are dealing here with the problem of evolutionism...This theory not only does not accord with the findings of contemporary experimental sciences, which are in continuous development, but they even contradict them, as has been accurately ascertained. The same Darwin, in the beginning, did not affirm that man descends from apes, but only presented a theory that man might descend from the apes, as a hypothesis.”
Maximilian Kolbe (1894–1941) said by 1941 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There is much evil in the world, but let us remember that the Immaculata is more powerful and 'she shall crush the head of the serpent' [cf. Gn 3:15].”
Maximilian Kolbe (1894–1941) said by 1941 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Why do many today try to convince themselves and others that God does not exist, even though they know perfectly well that not even the effort exercised by all scientists put together can bring to life a miserable mosquito? To affirm everything originates by pure, unexplainable chance is utter absurdity; as if one could think that a simple clock has been assembled, simply by chance, without the help of someone!”
Maximilian Kolbe (1894–1941) said by 1941 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“God has assigned each person a specific mission in this world: as He created the universe, He arranged primal causes so that the uninterrupted chain of their effects would engender the conditions and circumstances most favorable to carrying out that mission. Every man, therefore, is born with skills proportionate to the mission entrusted to him and, throughout the course of his life, environment, circumstances, and everything else contribute to make it possible and easy for him to achieve his aim. In fact, man’s perfection entirely consists in the attainment of that aim. The more accurately he manages to realize his task, the more scrupulously he fulfills its mission, the greater and holier he becomes in God’s eyes.”
Maximilian Kolbe (1894–1941) said by 1941 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source