El velo de Verónica Quotes

“It was for me a constant source of hope and happiness to be able to feel that I could in a way shield Our Lord from the hostility which she really meant for Him, and, as it were, take upon myself the heavy cross which He had to bear on account of this soul; and I hoped, too, that I might thereby, perhaps, be helping towards the salvation of that soul itself.”
― Gertrud von le Fort, El velo de Verónica

“It was for me a constant source of hope and happiness to be able to feel that I could in a way shield Our Lord from the hostility which she really meant for Him, and, as it were, take upon myself the heavy cross which He had to bear on account of this soul; and I hoped, too, that I might thereby, perhaps, be helping towards the salvation of that soul itself.”
― Gertrud von le Fort, El velo de Verónica

“We are always hard with ourselves when we refuse God something.”
― Gertrud von le Fort, El velo de Verónica

“The resistance of the world to Christ's love is great and reaches very far. Its degrees are many and various, but in essence it is always the same; it is always that mysterious No to an absolute surrender.”
― Gertrud von le Fort, El velo de Verónica

“For nothing on earth so dulls the soul, or inflicts on it such speedy and sure harm, as when it sees and learns that all the things that ought to be expressed only on bended knee and with the full surrender of oneself, are also being continually expressed without this surrender, and without this bending of the knee.”
― Gertrud von le Fort, El velo de Verónica

“Imprint thyself more deeply upon me, thou image of my King, thou, not I, shalt dwell in my soul, in my heart, in my countenance, on my lips, thou, not I, so long as I live, only thou!”
― Gertrud von le Fort, El velo de Verónica

“Such hatred can only exist in a soul that was once the recipient of a very great grace!”
― Gertrud von le Fort, El velo de Verónica

“True obedience requires greatness and inward freedom of soul.”
― Gertrud von le Fort, El velo de Verónica