Marthe Robin

"I feed only on this. They moisten my mouth, but I cannot swallow. The host gives me a physical impression of nourishment. Jesus, being my whole body, is the one who nourishes me. It is like a Resurrection. [...] I would like to shout to those who ask me if I eat that I eat more than they do, because I am nourished with the Eucharist of the blood and flesh of Jesus. I would like to say that it is they who arrest the fruits of this food within themselves, blocking its effects."

"I loved the sick very much and would have crossed mountains and valleys, if they had let me, to visit a sick person, not to cure them, but to love them"

"Did you notice that Our Mother in Lourdes did not simply say, as she did in Paris on Rue du Bac, that she was conceived without sin, but rather, “I am the Immaculate Conception”! She waited for the Church's proclamation of the dogma of her Holy Immaculate Conception to give us her personal identity before God."

"I believe that my first Communion in private was a taking possession by Our Lord; I believe he took possession of me at that moment."

"God does what he says: it is evident in his creation."

"Jesus did not promise to take away our cross. He told us to carry it on our shoulders, but with Jesus, the cross becomes all love."

"I have always prayed enormously in my life."

"I want to shout to those who ask me if I eat that I eat more than they do, because I feed on the Eucharist of the Blood and Flesh of Jesus. I want to tell them that they are the ones who block the effects of this nourishment within themselves, they block its effects."

"The role of Our Lady is to take care of the details, all the details; it is her maternal function that leads her to this."

"My life is a continuous Mass. I never feel that my bed is a bed; it is an altar, it is a cross."

"The priest encouraged me to pray without saying anything to me."

"Theology is a magnificent science; it is theologians who are boring."

"The sight of priests has always moved me."

"Do not leave poisons on the bedside tables of the sick."

"I don't like reading the lives of saints because each one has their own nuances. I prefer doctrine, not imitation."

"One never implores Mary in vain. I have firm faith that she will grant my request because I believe that we have no other hope than to turn to Divine Providence, which never abandons anyone."

"It does not occur to me to kneel [before Our Lady] but to fly towards her, not to ask, but with a feeling of gratitude and love."

"(In respect of suicide) because it was not her days she wanted to end, but the pain that tortured her."

"To live in the heart of Christ, in the heart of the Trinity, one must live with Mary."

"If Mary is full of grace, it is because she is the Mother of God."

"Suffering teaches charity, abandonment to God, detachment. Suffering teaches us to see and understand. Suffering teaches us to alleviate, to sympathize, to console those who suffer."

"Transforming all my actions into supernatural and divine actions is the most beautiful of truths, it is the greatest and ultimate word of love."

"I want to bring many, many souls to Jesus with my love alone and the entire offering of my sick life, with no other will than that of my God, or rather, with my will fully united to that of my God."