FRAGMENTS
May all things shatter, but never Unity! It’s in unity that we find Life in all its fulness.
Chiara Lubich in "Lettere 1939-1960", Città Nuova, 2022, p. 208Look at the stars and the life of human beings, and feel God. Embrace Him heart and soul!
Chiara Lubich, in Lettere 1939-1960, Città Nuova, 2022, p. 143It seems to me that the only thing we need to hold on to is doing good, because it’s the only thing that lasts.
Chiara Lubich, in "Lettere 1939-1960", Città Nuova, 2022, p. 340If we believe that God is Love, we have to love; we have to love one another.
Chiara Lubich, in "Conversazioni", Città Nuova, 2019, p. 201Don’t be afraid of anything.
Live the present moment with serenity, simplicity and love.Chiara Lubich, in "Lettere 1939-1960", Città Nuova, 2022, p. 153Aim to become poor in spirit, simple and humble, so that God draws close to you. God “looks upon” you if you are similar to Mary. “For He looked upon the lowliness of His handmaid” (Lk 1:48).
Chiara Lubich, in "Parole di Vita", Città Nuova, 2017, p. 157Joy is the first gift that Christians are called to give to the world.
If everyone is different, each person can be a gift to the others — and in so doing, they can be themselves and fulfill God’s plan for them in relation to others.
To offer the Risen Jesus to the world, to bring His presence among us, like Mary: let us seize this opportunity.
Chiara Lubich, in "Conversazioni", Città Nuova, 2019, p. 104The perfection of love is found in the practice of mutual love.
Chiara Lubich in "Conversazioni", Città Nuova, 2019, p. 411It’s no joke to commit oneself to always live mutual love, to bring about peace and to foster solidarity! It requires courage; it requires the ability to endure suffering.
Jesus in our midst brings forth His Spirit, the Holy Spirit, who renews all things and makes humanity new.
Chiara Lubich, London 13 June 1981, in "Lo Spirito Santo", Città Nuova, 2018, p.109Look at the sun and its rays. The sun is a symbol of the Divine Will, which is God Himself. The rays represent this Divine Will in reference to each human being. Walk towards the sun in the light of your own ray.
Chiara Lubich, "Meditazioni", Città Nuova 2020 IXXX, p.30It is You who comes to visit me. It is I who answers You: “Here I am, Lord; I want You, I have always wanted You.”
Chiara Lubich, "Commento alla Parola di Vita", April 1989God wants to renew all things, all sectors of human endeavours. But to do this, He needs us.
Chiara Lubich, "Commento alla Parola di Vita", April 1989Let us no longer look at the past to lament the beautiful things that happened or to weep over our mistakes; let us place our firm trust in God’s action, for if he is left free to act, he can continue to bring about “new things.”
Chiara Lubich, in "Parole di Vita", by Fabio Ciardi; Città Nuova, Rome 2017 pp. 715-716.“There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call, (Eph 4:4).
“If unity is so important to Christians, it stands to reason that nothing is more opposed to their vocation than the failure to be united.”Chiara Lubich, July 1985I believe that Christmas never goes out of date because it is a mystery that is profoundly human as it is divine.
Nothing good, nothing useful, nothing fruitful can be achieved in the world without accepting the effort and embracing suffering; in a word, without the cross.
Committing oneself at all times to live mutual love, to build peace and to promote solidarity is not something to be taken lightly! It calls for courage and knowing how to suffer.
Paris, 17 December 1996, UNESCO Peace PrizeToday I’ll be careful not to judge, and to give the measure that I would wish upon myself one day.
Chiara Lubich in "Diario 1964-1980", by Fabio Ciardi, Opera di Chiara Lubich, Citta' Nuova, 2023, p. 151Striving for holiness means focusing all our attention, all our efforts into loving those around us. For us, to seek holiness doesn’t consist so much in getting rid of our defects one by one, but in loving and thinking of others we completely forget ourselves.
Chiara Lubich in "Conversazioni in collegamento telefonico", by M. Vandeleene, Works of Chiara Lubich, Città Nuova, 2019, p. 120What a great gift freedom is! It is valued by those who experience it, but, I believe, even more so by those who have lost it… Dear God, may this gift of Yours to humanity and to nations one day prevail throughout the entire world.
Chiara Lubich in "Diario 1964-1980", by F. Ciardi, "Opere di Chiara Lubich", Città Nuova, 2023, p. 49 (2 April 1964, on the plane from New York to Buenos Aires)Jesus Forsaken is the one who is “forgotten” by heaven and by earth. We must forget ourselves. But for us to do this we must remember Him in our neighbours, in His will.
Chiara Lubich in "Diary 1964-1980", by F. Ciardi, "Works of Chiara Lubich", Città Nuova, 2023, p. 95This is the characteristic of the political dimension of being citizens: the constant relationship with others, the acknowledgement of their being distinct from me, but, at the same time, the conviction that we belong, all together, to the city.
Chiara Lubich, talk given at a congress of European mayors with the title "A thousand cities for Europe".These are times in which all peoples must cross their own borders and look beyond. The time has come when other people’s countries should be loved as our own, when our way of seeing has to acquire a new purity.
Chiara Lubich, "Maria, Vincolo d'unita' tra i Popoli" (Summer of 1959), in Chiara Lubich, "La Dottrina Spirituale", Citta' Nuova, 2006, pp 327-328You don’t always think of yourself as being a most precious creature: the object of God’s love.
Chiara Lubich, 1945Those close to me have been created as a gift to me, and I have been created as a gift to them. On earth, everything is in a relationship of love with everything else; each thing with all other things. But we must experience Love in order to discover the golden thread that exists between human beings.
Chiara Lubich, Spiritual thoughts - nothing is small if done out of love, in "La dottrina spirituale", Città Nuova, 2006, p. 142.It doesn’t matter whether we can give a little or a lot. What counts is “how” we give, how much love we put into even a small gesture of kindness for another person.
Chiara Lubich, Parola di Vita, October 2006Don’t leave anyone alone.
Chiara Lubich, “Una città non basta”, 1958I was thinking to myself in these days that if there one phrase that could sum up my life in this moment, it would be this: “You know, Jesus, that I love you”.
So if you were to ask me for a word to say to you this Easter, addressed to each one of you, it would be this: “You know that I love you!” It is my Easter gift to you, a gift that is real, true, substantial; it is a pure and dense flame that can never be extinguished in this life. On the contrary!
What hurts me is mine. Mine is the suffering that touches me in the present moment. Mine is the suffering of the those who are near me.
“I Have Only One Spouse on Earth” is a foundational text in Chiara Lubich’s spirituality, written by her spontaneously following a period of illumination in the summer of 1949.Don’t make excuses for love. Our neighbours are those who are next to us.
Chiara Lubich, Pensieri 1961, in Scritti Spirituali/1,1978, pp. 164-165Why give something of mine to another? Created by God, just like me, the other is my brother, my sister; therefore; they are a part of me.,
Chiara Lubich, "Parola di Vita", September 2005Let us not let a single moment pass without loving, and we will not spend a single moment without joy.
Chiara Lubich, in "Conversazioni", by M. Vandeleene, "Opere di Chiara Lubich", Città Nuova, 2019, pag. 308Unity sums up the whole of our spirituality. Unity with God, unity with those around us. But more importantly, unity with our brothers and sisters in order to reach union with God.
Chiara Lubich in Diary 1964-1980 by Fabio Ciardi (Works of Chiara Lubich), Città Nuova, 2023, p. 240
