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René Laurentin
18 quotes
“Thérèse of Lisieux was one of the sources of inspiration for the philosopher Henri Bergson during the final stage of his search, in which he found God thanks to the testimony of mystics.”
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Recorded in: Teresa di Lisieux. Vita e attualità, translated into Italian by L. Bianchi, Queriniana, 1997
“Christ does not even grant her [to Mary] the satisfactions of motherhood according to the flesh, however legitimate they may be.”
René Laurentin (1917–2017) said by 2017 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Mary shared the obscure condition of faith that is that of the other redeemed.”
René Laurentin (1917–2017) said by 2017 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It cannot be said that Mary's Redemption is of a different kind from ours, because it is the same redemption as Christ's, but in its supreme fulfillment and with its own modes of anticipation and perfection.”
René Laurentin (1917–2017) said by 2017 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If she is our queen, we too will reign with Christ; Mary is not superior to us except in being closer to us.”
René Laurentin (1917–2017) said by 2017 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Through the apparitions at Lourdes, Our Lady wanted to restore in us a love for the poor and for poverty, a love that is ingenious and liberating.”
René Laurentin (1917–2017) said by 2017 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Conversion: this is the word that most specifically expresses the meaning of pilgrimage.”
René Laurentin (1917–2017) said by 2017 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The events at Lourdes present an order, a harmony that becomes increasingly apparent as one delves deeper.”
René Laurentin (1917–2017) said by 2017 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Mass and the Body of Christ have become the very center of pilgrimage to Lourdes.”
René Laurentin (1917–2017) said by 2017 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The mid-19th century saw the triumph of the reign of money over the medieval reign of honor and traditions.”
René Laurentin (1917–2017) said by 2017 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The prayer of Bernadette is contagious.”
René Laurentin (1917–2017) said by 2017 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The Virgin [Mary] is the one in whom no sin has diminished love.”
René Laurentin (1917–2017) said by 2017 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Lourdes does not disappoint, even though miracles remain the exception there.”
René Laurentin (1917–2017) said by 2017 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We sinners oscillate dangerously between harshness and complicity towards others.”
René Laurentin (1917–2017) said by 2017 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There is no true love for the sinner without hatred for his sin.”
René Laurentin (1917–2017) said by 2017 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“One cannot understand the sinner through sin, because sin is not a positive technique: in its essence it is deprivation, absence, nothingness; it is sin to the exact extent that it decapitates the good of the act performed. It is therefore not a factor of understanding but of obscurity.”
René Laurentin (1917–2017) said by 2017 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If heaven chooses what does not exist according to the world, it is not for the gratuitous pleasure of mocking the world.”
René Laurentin (1917–2017) said by 2017 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“One is capable of mercy to the extent that one knows one is the object of mercy.”
René Laurentin (1917–2017) said by 2017 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source