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Top 10 Walter J. Ciszek Quotes (2025 Update)

Walter J. Ciszek Quote: “And the greatest grace God can give such a man is to send him a trial he cannot bear with his own powers – and then sustain him with his grace so he may endure to the end and be saved.”

1. “And the greatest grace God can give such a man is to send him a trial he cannot bear with his own powers – and then sustain him with his grace so he may endure to the end and be saved.”

— Walter J. Ciszek

Walter J. Ciszek Quote: “Faith is inseparable from love; out of these two twins hope is born.”

2. “Faith is inseparable from love; out of these two twins hope is born.”

— Walter J. Ciszek

Walter J. Ciszek Quote: “He wants men of greatest generosity and self-sacrificing,” he wrote, “who renounce their own will and embrace his will instead.” So, “Lord, if that is thy will in regard to me, unworthy one, I embrace it fully and promise with thy grace to remain faithful to the end to thy most holy will. This is my life, my joy, my strength and courage.”

3. “He wants men of greatest generosity and self-sacrificing,” he wrote, “who renounce their own will and embrace his will instead.” So, “Lord, if that is thy will in regard to me, unworthy one, I embrace it fully and promise with thy grace to remain faithful to the end to thy most holy will. This is my life, my joy, my strength and courage.”

— Walter J. Ciszek

Walter J. Ciszek Quote: “The Soviets are here.” The news spread like panic through the small village of Albertyn, Poland, on October 17, 1939. I had just finished Mass and breakfast on that memorable morning, when bewildered parishioners came to the mission to tell me the news. It was news we had feared ever since it had become clear that Germany and Russia were dividing up Poland. But now our fears were a reality. The Red Army was in Albertyn.”

4. “The Soviets are here.” The news spread like panic through the small village of Albertyn, Poland, on October 17, 1939. I had just finished Mass and breakfast on that memorable morning, when bewildered parishioners came to the mission to tell me the news. It was news we had feared ever since it had become clear that Germany and Russia were dividing up Poland. But now our fears were a reality. The Red Army was in Albertyn.”

— Walter J. Ciszek

Walter J. Ciszek Quote: “And each one of us drives love from our lives, drives the longing, the desire for happiness and peace from our lives, each time we run from generosity. There is no love, there is no peace, there is no joy without him. He and he alone is our reward exceedingly great; no physical comfort, no thing, no person can ever truly fill our lives.”

5. “And each one of us drives love from our lives, drives the longing, the desire for happiness and peace from our lives, each time we run from generosity. There is no love, there is no peace, there is no joy without him. He and he alone is our reward exceedingly great; no physical comfort, no thing, no person can ever truly fill our lives.”

— Walter J. Ciszek

Walter J. Ciszek Quote: “Mysteriously, God in his providence must make use of our tragedies to remind our fallen human nature of his presence and his love, of the constancy of his concern and care for us. It is not vindictiveness on his part; he does not send us tragedies to punish us for having so long forgotten him. The failing is on our part.”

6. “Mysteriously, God in his providence must make use of our tragedies to remind our fallen human nature of his presence and his love, of the constancy of his concern and care for us. It is not vindictiveness on his part; he does not send us tragedies to punish us for having so long forgotten him. The failing is on our part.”

— Walter J. Ciszek

Walter J. Ciszek Quote: “We tend to concentrate on ourselves, we tend to think of what we can or cannot do, and we forget about God and his will and his providence.”

7. “We tend to concentrate on ourselves, we tend to think of what we can or cannot do, and we forget about God and his will and his providence.”

— Walter J. Ciszek

Walter J. Ciszek Quote: “I was lonely enough and homesick in the years that followed. My father died while I was studying in Rome, and I could not be at his funeral. When I was at last ordained in Rome, none of my family could afford to make the trip to be with me. Yet through those years I never once wavered in my conviction that God had called me for the Russian missions; I never doubted that I would one day serve him there.”

8. “I was lonely enough and homesick in the years that followed. My father died while I was studying in Rome, and I could not be at his funeral. When I was at last ordained in Rome, none of my family could afford to make the trip to be with me. Yet through those years I never once wavered in my conviction that God had called me for the Russian missions; I never doubted that I would one day serve him there.”

— Walter J. Ciszek

Walter J. Ciszek Quote: “Between God and the individual soul, however, there are no insignificant moments; this is the mystery of divine providence.”

9. “Between God and the individual soul, however, there are no insignificant moments; this is the mystery of divine providence.”

— Walter J. Ciszek

Walter J. Ciszek Quote: “Through the long years of isolation and suffering, God had led me to an understanding of life and his love that only those who have experienced it can fathom. He had stripped away from me many of the external consolations, physical and religious, that men rely on and had left me with a core of seemingly simple truths to guide me. And yet what a profound difference they had made in my life, what strength they gave me, what courage to go on!”

10. “Through the long years of isolation and suffering, God had led me to an understanding of life and his love that only those who have experienced it can fathom. He had stripped away from me many of the external consolations, physical and religious, that men rely on and had left me with a core of seemingly simple truths to guide me. And yet what a profound difference they had made in my life, what strength they gave me, what courage to go on!”

— Walter J. Ciszek

Walter J. Ciszek Quote: “It is much easier to see the redemptive role of pain and suffering in God’s plan if you are not actually undergoing pain and suffering. It was only by struggling with such feelings, however, that growth occurred. Each victory over discouragement gave an increase in spiritual courage; every success, however fleeting, in finding the hand of God behind all things, made it easier to recapture the sense of his purpose in a new day of seemingly senseless.”

11. “It is much easier to see the redemptive role of pain and suffering in God’s plan if you are not actually undergoing pain and suffering. It was only by struggling with such feelings, however, that growth occurred. Each victory over discouragement gave an increase in spiritual courage; every success, however fleeting, in finding the hand of God behind all things, made it easier to recapture the sense of his purpose in a new day of seemingly senseless.”

— Walter J. Ciszek

Walter J. Ciszek Quote: “It was as if my whole life, in God’s plan, had pointed to this moment. I could remember vividly that day so long ago, during the second year of my noviceship at St. Andrew’s in New York, when our novice master read us a letter from Pius XI asking for volunteers to join a new Russian mission just opened in Rome. Even as he read the letter, something within me stirred. I could hardly wait for the conference to finish so I could go to the novice master and volunteer for this new Russian apostolate.”

12. “It was as if my whole life, in God’s plan, had pointed to this moment. I could remember vividly that day so long ago, during the second year of my noviceship at St. Andrew’s in New York, when our novice master read us a letter from Pius XI asking for volunteers to join a new Russian mission just opened in Rome. Even as he read the letter, something within me stirred. I could hardly wait for the conference to finish so I could go to the novice master and volunteer for this new Russian apostolate.”

— Walter J. Ciszek

Walter J. Ciszek Quote: “I knew what my answer would be. I had no doubts, no fears, no hesitation. I knew what I was going to do next, what I had wanted all my life, what the mission to Albertyn had been meant for in God’s providence.”

13. “I knew what my answer would be. I had no doubts, no fears, no hesitation. I knew what I was going to do next, what I had wanted all my life, what the mission to Albertyn had been meant for in God’s providence.”

— Walter J. Ciszek

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