Bridget of Sweden Quotes
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The source of justice is not vengeance but charity.
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O Mary, you give assistance to everyone endeavoring to rise to God!
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There is no sinner in the world, however much at enmity with God, who cannot recover God's grace by recourse to Mary, and by asking her assistance.
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Let everyone who has the grace of intelligence fear that, because of it, he will be judged more heavily if he is negligent.
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Pilate sentenced him due to fear, in accordance with the petition and intention of others. These people sentence him for their own advantage and without any fear, by dishonoring him through sin that they could abstain from, if they wanted. But they neither abstain from sin nor are they ashamed of their already committed sins, for they do not take into consideration their unworthiness of the kindness of the one whom they do not serve.
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To write well and speak well is mere vanity if one does not live well.
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Let a man fear, above all, me, his God, and so much the gentler will he become toward my creatures and animals, on whom, on account of me, their Creator, he ought to have compassion.
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The world would have peace if only men of politics would follow the Gospels.