9 Quotes by Simone Troisi

But during the Prayer of the Faithful, she gave thanks for all the babies present and for their voices, because, she said, they show us what we are; we are capricious when we wish to tell God what to do.

In love one cannot be mediocre, nor can one sustain love without work. The choices in the past were not enough, and it was necessary to choose again.

Love completely possessed her, in the only way that one could be completely possessed by something, in the Lord.

The heart is a land we do not know well; neither its boundaries and frontiers, nor its miseries and grandeurs.

Whoever thinks from a distance about his situation lives it with suffering; whoever is close to it lives it with consolation, the fruit of a true wisdom.

At this point, Chiara said 'Well, even if I ask Him for a cure - and I am asking Him - perhaps God knows what I truly want.' Chiara was like the man born blind, God's work was appearing in her. (cf John 9:1-38)'With these words,' Enrico explained, 'Chiara was revealing to me that there was within her an intimacy of which she herself was not aware, that intimacy was the place where God dwells.

We do not define ourselves as men or as women through our work, our house, our health, or our reputation. We define ourselves as men and women through the way we love.

On the flight, before touching ground, we became aware of what we truly were: pilgrims reaching toward Heaven.

To discover that you are loved is the center of all existence. And when we are filled with this total and delirious love, little by little, we grow and love in turn. That gradualness in our journeys is a sign of the infinite tenderness of God.