Misery, Trust and Mercy -- Diary of St. Faustina 1146 Let the greatest sinners place their trust in My mercy. They have the right before others to trust in the abyss of My mercy. 174 It is with just such miserable souls that the Lord Jesus communes in this intimate way. And the more you humble yourself, the more the Lord Jesus will 1182 The greater the misery of a soul, the greater its right to My mercy; urge all unite Himself with you. souls to trust in the unfathomable abyss of My mercy, because I want to save them all. 256 Thank You, Jesus, for the great favor of making known to me the whole abyss of my misery. I know that I am an abyss of nothingness and that, if Your 1293 If it hadn't been for this small imperfection, you wouldn't have come to holy grace did not hold me up, I would return to nothingness in a moment. Me. Know that as often as you come to Me, humbling yourself and asking My forgiveness, I pour out a superabundance of graces on your soul, and your 289 My happiest moments are when I am alone with my Lord. During these imperfection vanishes before My eyes, and I see only your love and your moments I experience the greatness of God and my own misery. humility. You lose nothing but gain much…
361 Our nothingness and our misery are drowned in Your greatness. O infinite 1318 My daughter, you have not offered Me that which is really yours. Give goodness, who can ever praise You sufficiently? Can there be found a soul that Me your misery, because it is your exclusive property. At that moment, a ray understand You in Your love? O Jesus, there are such souls, but they are few. of light illumined my soul, and I saw the whole abyss of my misery.
432 I am very much aware of His greatness and my misery. An extraordinary 1417 O my Lord, my soul is the most wretched of all, and yet You stoop to it with suffering pervades my soul, together with a joy I cannot compare to anything. If such kindness! I see clearly Your greatness and my littleness, and therefore I feel powerless in the embrace of God. I feel that I am in Him and that I am rejoice that You are so powerful and without limit, and so I rejoice greatly at dissolved in Him like a drop of water in the ocean. being so little.
718 You see what you are of yourself, but do not be frightened at this. If I 1486 O soul steeped in darkness, do not despair. All is not yet lost. Come were to reveal to you the whole misery that you are, you would die of terror. and confide in your God, who is love and mercy. However, be aware of what you are. Because you are such great misery, I have revealed to you the whole ocean of My mercy. I seek and desire souls 1488 The cause of your falls is that you rely too much upon yourself and too like yours, but they are few. little on Me. But let this not sadden you so much. You are dealing with the God of mercy, which your misery cannot exhaust. 793 O Jesus, make the fount of Your mercy gush forth more abundantly, for humankind is seriously ill and thus has more need than ever of Your compassion. 1507 Let no one doubt concerning the goodness of God; even if a person's sins You are a bottomless sea of mercy for us sinners; and the greater the misery, the were as dark as night, God's mercy is stronger than our misery. One thing alone is more right we have to Your mercy. necessary: that the sinner set ajar the door of his heart, be it ever so little, to let in a ray of God's merciful grace, and then God will do the rest. 944 There are moments when I mistrust myself, when I feel my own weakness and wretchedness in the most profound depths of my own being, and I have 1541 When a soul sees and realized the gravity of its sins, when the whole noticed that I can endure such moments only by trusting in the infinite mercy of abyss of the misery into which it immersed itself is displayed before its eyes, God. let it not despair, but with trust let it throw itself into the arms of My mercy, as a child into the arms of its beloved mother. These souls have a right of 1087 When one day I resolved to practice a certain virtue, I lapsed into the vice priority to My compassionate Heart, they have first access to My mercy. I opposed to that virtue ten times more frequently than on other days. In the delight particularly in a soul which has placed its trust in My goodness. evening, I was reflecting on why, today, I had lapsed so extraordinarily, and I heard the words: You were counting too much on yourself and too little on Me. 1775 I am mercy itself; therefore I ask you to offer Me your misery and this And I understood the cause of my lapses. very helplessness of yours and, in this way, you will delight My Heart.