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“So much value does the Almighty set on the proper order in created things, that, though Jesus was the true God and His Mother so highly exalted above St. Joseph in sanctity, He did not permit the arrangements of this journey to proceed from His Son nor from His Mother, but from St. Joseph, who was the head of this Family. God intended to teach all mortals, that He wishes all things to be governed by the natural order set up by His Providence; and that the inferiors and subjects of the mystical body of the Church, even thougj they may excel in virtue and in certain other respects, must obey and submit to their superiors and prelates in the visible order.”
― Venerable Mary of Agreda, The Mystical City of God: A Popular Abridgement of the Divine History and Life of the Virgin Mother of God

“Most of us tend to belittle all suffering except our own," said Mary. "I think it's fear. We don't want to come too near in case we're sucked in and have to share it.”
― Elizabeth Goudge, The Scent of Water

“[I]f you believe in God omnipresent, then you must believe everything that comes into your life, person or event, must have something of God in it to be experienced and loved; not hated.”
― Elizabeth Goudge, Green Dolphin Street

“In times of storm and tempest, of indecision and desolation, a book already known and loved makes better reading than something new and untried ... nothing is so warming and companionable.”
― Elizabeth Goudge