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“Marriage is a state of penance. It calls for prayer, fasting, alms-deeds, renunciation, and the intention to increase the Kingdom of God.”
― Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich, Life of Jesus Christ and Biblical Revelations Volume 1 (with Supplemental Reading: A Brief Life of Christ) [Illustrated]

“And now the holy couple began here a new married life. They made a sacrifice to God of all the preceding years, and began again as if they had only just now been united. Their only aim was by a life pleasing to God, to attract upon themselves that blessing for which alone they sighed. I saw them both going to and fro among their herds. They divided them into three parts, and drove the best to the Temple. The poor received the second part, and the worst was retained for themselves. They acted in the same manner with all that belonged to them.”
― Anna Katharina Emmerick, The Lowly Life and Bitter Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ and His Blessed Mother Together with the Mysteries of the Old Testament

“What is that to you? Be not troubled, look, and praise the Lord who is eternal and in whom are all things.”
― Anne Catherine Emmerich, Best Works of Anne Catherine Emmerich

“Las piedras eran más blandas y creyentes que el corazón de los hombres, y daban testimonio, en aquellos terribles momentos, de la impresión que la verdad suprema hacía sobre ellas.”
― Anne Catherine Emmerich

“bread and refreshing themselves with some balsam”
― Anne Catherine Emmerich, The Complete Visions of Anne Catherine Emmeric

“The reason why Mary became His Mother and why He did not come sooner was that she alone, and no creature before her or after her, was the pure Vessel of Grace, promised by God to mankind as the Mother of the Incarnate Word, by the merits of whose Passion mankind was to be redeemed from its guilt. The Blessed Virgin was the one and only pure blossom of the human race, flowering in the fullness of time. All the children of God from the beginning of time who have striven after salvation contributed to her coming. She was the only pure gold of the whole earth. She alone was the pure immaculate flesh and blood of the whole human race, prepared and purified and ordained and consecrated through all the generations of her ancestors, guided, guarded, and fortified by the Law until she came forth as the fullness of Grace. She was pre-ordained in eternity and passed through time as the Mother of the Eternal.”
― Anne Catherine Emmerich, The Life of the Blessed Virgin Mary

“They were enraged at hearing some things that they never before knew,”
― Anne Catherine Emmerich, The Complete Visions of Anne Catherine Emmeric

“Dr. Wesener (the district doctor of Dülmen),”
― Anne Catherine Emmerich, The Anne Catherine Emmerich Collection [10 Books]

“for it is not in time; in God is no time, in God everything is present.”
― Anne Catherine Emmerich, Best Works of Anne Catherine Emmerich

“Do not be anxious about a dwelling for yourself; take care only that you are swept and garnished within to receive Our Lord when He comes to you. When Joseph came to Bethlehem, he sought a lodging for Jesus, not for himself, and swept the Cave of the Nativity till it was beautifully clean.”
― Anne Catherine Emmerich, Best Works of Anne Catherine Emmerich

“I saw Cain’s descendants becoming more and more godless and sensual. They settled further and further up that mountain ridge where were the fallen spirits. Those spirits took possession of many of the women, ruled them completely, and taught them all sorts of seductive arts. Their children were very large. They possessed a quickness, an aptitude for everything, and they gave themselves up entirely to the wicked spirits as their instruments. And so arose on this mountain and spread far around, a wicked race which by violence and seduction sought to entangle Seth’s posterity likewise in their own corrupt ways. Then God declared to Noe His intention to send the Deluge. During the building of the ark, Noe had to suffer terribly from those people.”
― Anne Catherine Emmerich, The Anne Catherine Emmerich Collection [10 Books]

“He had said to the Apostles with Him that when He should have departed from them, they should seek Him in the noonday. Peter, always so bold, asked what that meant, Then I heard Jesus saying: "At noon the sun is directly above us and there is no shadow. At morn and eve shadows follow the light, and at midnight darkness prevails. Seek Me, therefore, in the full noonday light. And you shall find Me in your own heart, provided no shadow obscures its light.”
― Anne Catherine Emmerich, The Complete Visions of Anne Catherine Emmeric

“The women invented music.”
― Anne Catherine Emmerich, The Complete Visions of Anne Catherine Emmeric

“When St. Joseph was told by the angel to flee into Egypt with Jesus and Mary, he did not worry about a dwelling-place, but set off at once as he was told.”
― Anne Catherine Emmerich, Best Works of Anne Catherine Emmerich

“José lloraba y María lo consoló.”
― Anne Catherine Emmerich, La vida oculta de la Virgen María

“Jesus Christ, the second Adam, was pleased to let sleep come upon him-the sleep of death on the cross, and he was also pleased to let his side be opened, in order that the second Eve, his virgin spouse, the Church, the mother of all living, might be formed from it.”
― Anne Catherine Emmerich, The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ: From the Visions of Anne Catherine Emmerich