Darryl Friesen’s Reviews > Diary of Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska: Divine Mercy in My Soul > Status Update

P1351 Jesus, my most perfect model, with my eyes fixed on You, I will go through life in Your footsteps, adapting nature to grace, according to Your most holy will and Your light which illumines my soul, trusting completely in Your help.

P1360 O Lord, You who penetrate my whole being and the most secret depths of my soul, You see that I desire You alone and long only for the fulfillment of Your holy will…

P1341 “If God demands a sacrifice, He does not withhold His grace, but gives it to the soul in abundance.”

P1343 “One thing alone is necessary: to put my old self to death and to begin a new life.”

P1344 “O merciful God, who still allow me to live, give me strength that I may live a new life, the life of the spirit, over which death has no dominion.”

Finished Notebook 4! Paragraphs 1310-1321 are some of the most impacting and moving of the whole diary so far ❤️‍🩹🙏🏻🙌🏻

P1293 🥹❤️🙏🏻 on the intimacy and restoration of Jesus’s eager forgiveness of our sins

P1285 “You have surrounded my life with Your tender and loving care, more than I can comprehend, for I will understand Your goodness in its entirety only when the veil is lifted. I desire that my whole life be but one act of thanksgiving to You, O God.”

P1279 “I could not rise from the ground because, whenever I tried to do so, God’s light gave me new knowledge of His grace… As His child, I felt that everything the Heavenly Father possessed was equally mine. He Himself lifted me from the ground up to His heart. I felt that everything that existed was exclusively mine, but I had no desire for it all, because God alone is enough for me.”

P1164 St Faustina’s Act of Obligation ❤️❤️

P1169 “O my Jesus, when shall we look upon souls with higher motives in mind? When will our judgements be true? You give us occasions to practice deeds of mercy, and instead we use the occasions to pass judgment. In order to know whether the love of God flourishes in a convent, one must ask how they treat the sick, the disabled, and the infirm who are there.”