Catherine McAuley Quotations

Our Vocation is full of joy and peace in the Holy Spirit.

There has been a most Providential Guidance which the want of prudence, vigilance, or judgement has not impeded, and it is here that we can most clearly see the designs of God.

Teach me to do your will, for you are my God.

We have now gone beyond 100 in number, and the desire to join seems rather to increase, though it was thought the foundations would retard it, it seems quite otherwise.

We belong to God. All in us is His.

Our hearts can always be in the same place, centered on God.

Show your instructions in actions as much as you can.

We have one solid comfort amidst this little tripping about, our hearts can always be in the same place, centered in God, for whom alone we go forward or stay back.

Our charity is to be cordial...something that renews, invigorates and warms. Such should be the effect of our love for each other.

Oh may He look on us with love and pity and then we shall be able to do anything He wishes us to do, no matter how difficult to accomplish or painful to our feeling.