Yes be happy very happy not with the happiness this world gives but that which is tested in the practice of the virtues. Renew yourselves in the spirit of your vacation let Jesus Christ be your end. A year will very soon be lost in the ocean of eternity.
– Mother Marie de L’Incarnation
A religious house is kind of Sanctuary where everything breeds fourth order and peace
– Mother Marie de L’Incarnation
Silence is the soul of perfection silence is the bark of the skin with which watch is enveloped– Mother Marie de L’Incarnation
Let us remember that in consecrating ourselves to Jesus Christ we are attached to the cross with him, that the three vows are the three nails that hold us fixed to the cross and divine love is like a lance which must pierce our hearts from which flows holy affection
– Mother Marie de L’Incarnation
Work thus sanctified by more intense prayers will be a prayer, a Holocaust, that will be pleasing to God in his love and Mercy
– Mother Marie de L’Incarnation
If at times Saint Joseph had to leave Jesus, his heart kept his image let us thus keep the image of Jesus to learn to know and the make Jesus loved.
– Mother Marie de L’Incarnation
Let us fill ourselves with God in order to give God
– Mother Marie de L’Incarnation
Be Saints and the Lord will accomplish marvelous through you in the children confined to you.
– Mother Marie de L’Incarnation
Heaven will be the price of your efforts.
– Mother Marie de L’Incarnation
Without silence there is no peace, no life is possible it is the atmosphere of religious how is this everything must be impregnated by it.
– Mother Helen Marie
It can be said that in a convent where there is no silence there is no more regularity no more recollection no more interior spirit no more spirit of meditation and then my dear sisters what do soul become without power, without fervour, they drag themselves, they bear no fruits that the divine master waits for and to which he has a right from those who has called the religious life in solitude in order to speak their heart
– Mother Marie de L’Incarnation
God was guiding them, step by step, towards the goal He had in view.
– Mother Anne Marie, 1917
Where is found true joy? It is found in union with God, in the peace of good conscience, the exact accomplishment of our duties.
– Mother Marie de L’Incarnation
God alone! Such must be our unique motto. In short this quotation sums up our vocation; may it always be before our eyes and in our hearts, so that we may not lose the remembrance of it.
– Mother Marie de L’Incarnation
Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. Therefore, before we speak of virtue let us ourselves be profoundly virtuous.
– Mother Marie de L’Incarnation
Let us become women of sacrifice; let us have but one desire, one ambition, to procure the glory of God, to spread his kingdom.
– Mother Marie de L’Incarnation
How happy we will be, my dear sisters, if we can say each evening; everything is consummated…. In everything I have done the will of God.
– Mother Marie de L’Incarnation
In the measures that God opens up new horizons to us, may love of sacrifice and esteem for our vocation grow and gladden our hearts, we who are Spouses of Jesus
– Mother Marie de L’Incarnation
I believe that it is in prayer, in suffering and in mortification that the religious plant( the congregation) grows.
– Mother Marie de L’Incarnation
We have received much. Let us not abuse grace. A day will come when we will have to give an account. Let us work therefore, my dear sisters to become saints.
– Mother Marie de L’Incarnation
For God’s sake do not get discouraged. Let us be calm and let us pray. Let us confide our difficulties to St Joseph our august patron
– Mother Marie de L’Incarnation
Let us draw back from sacrifice: our children’s future is in our hands, according to their education such will be their lives
– Mother Marie de L’Incarnation
God wants to exercise your patience. In order to please Him let us submit to all that He still demands of us with a good heart.
– Mother Marie de L’Incarnation
Penence is the foundation of the religious spirit… without sacrifices, there is no religious life
– Mother Marie de L’Incarnation
He who neglects little things falls into abyss. Take care not to fall into this misfortune. Let us awaken our faith, reanimate our fervour.
– Mother Marie de L’Incarnation