Maximilian Kolbe > Quotes

“No one in the world can change Truth. What we can do and 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?”
― St. Maximilian Kolbe

“25. The soul offers to the Immaculate its own acts of love not as one consigns an object to just any intermediary, but as her property, as her complete and exclusive property, since it understands that the Immaculate offers to Jesus these acts as if they were her own, which means that she offers them without stain, immaculate; Jesus, then, offers them to the Father.”
― St. Maximilian Kolbe, Let Yourself Be Led by the Immaculate

“every fall, even if it be very grave and repeated, serves us always and only as a little step towards a higher perfection.”
― St. Maximilian Kolbe, Let Yourself Be Led by the Immaculate

“In order that obedience be supernatural it must not proceed from reason, but from faith.”
― St. Maximilian Kolbe, Let Yourself Be Led by the Immaculate

“The Immaculate will conquer, through us, the whole world and every single soul.”
― St. Maximilian Kolbe, Let Yourself Be Led by the Immaculate

“You are hers: Let yourself be led by the Immaculate”
― St. Maximilian Kolbe, Let Yourself Be Led by the Immaculate

“A man cannot rise any higher than this. The Immaculate is the highest degree of perfection and sanctity of a creature. No man will ever attain this celestial summit of grace, for the Mother of God is unique. However, he who gives himself without limits to the Immaculate will in a short time attain a very high degree of perfection and procure for God a very great glory.”
― St. Maximilian Kolbe, Let Yourself Be Led by the Immaculate

“One can go to Our Lord Jesus or the Most Holy Trinity directly, not excluding, however, the most holy Mother, for to tend toward God without Mary, if it is with an express exclusion of her, is pride and something diabolical, and the essence of sin is always pride, that is, non-conformity with the will of God; and the will of God is this, that we go to Him by this road, that is, through the most holy Mother.”
― St. Maximilian Kolbe, Let Yourself Be Led by the Immaculate

“Approaching directly to her heart you will attain a greater knowledge of her and be inflamed by a greater love for her than all human words together could teach you.”
― St. Maximilian Kolbe, Let Yourself Be Led by the Immaculate

“14. I pray you to tell the Brothers not to be afraid at all to love the Immaculate too much since . . . they will never love her like Jesus loved her.”
― St. Maximilian Kolbe, Let Yourself Be Led by the Immaculate

“The will of the Immaculate is most intimately united to the will of the Holy Ghost in such a way that it is completely identified with it.”
― St. Maximilian Kolbe, Let Yourself Be Led by the Immaculate

“But grace, for ourselves and for others, is obtained by humble prayer, by mortification, and by fidelity in the accomplishment of our own ordinary duties, including the simplest ones.”
― St. Maximilian Kolbe, Let Yourself Be Led by the Immaculate

“The most holy Mother is Mediatrix of all graces without exception. . . . Therefore the life of grace of a soul depends on the degree of its closeness to her. The closer a soul approaches her, the more pure it becomes, the more lively becomes its faith. Its love becomes more beautiful, and all virtues, being the work of grace, are strengthened and vivified. We cannot seek grace anywhere else because she is its Mediatrix.”
― St. Maximilian Kolbe, Let Yourself Be Led by the Immaculate

“When the soul reflects on the fact that it has given itself to the Immaculate, and that whatever happens to it occurs by her will, it is filled with a very great peace.”
― St. Maximilian Kolbe, Let Yourself Be Led by the Immaculate

“Different prayers and formulas are good and beautiful, but the essential thing . . . is the simple relationship of a child to its mother, this sense of our need for this mother, the conviction that without her we can do nothing.”
― St. Maximilian Kolbe, Let Yourself Be Led by the Immaculate

“Our dependence on Mary is greater than we can imagine. We receive all graces, absolutely all of them, from God through the Immaculate, who is our universal mediatrix with Jesus.”
― St. Maximilian Kolbe, Let Yourself Be Led by the Immaculate