聖女傅天娜日記摘錄：
將耶穌的話記在心裡：「默想我苦難的一小時，勝過一年鞭笞至流血的功德；默想我痛苦的傷口對你大有益處，也使我大喜樂。」（日記，369）
耶穌告訴我，默想祂的苦難最能取悅祂，這樣的默想也使我的靈魂沐浴在光明之中。 （日記，267）耶穌對祂的小新娘說：「很少有靈魂能真心實意地默想我的苦難；我賜給那些虔誠默想我苦難的靈魂莫大的恩典。」（日記，737）
祂說：「我的女兒，要常常默想我為你所受的苦難，這樣，你為我所受的苦難對你來說就都不算什麼了。你默想我的苦難最能取悅我。」「將你微小的苦難與我痛苦的苦難結合起來，使它們在天主面前具有無限的價值。」（《日記》，1512年）
聖奧斯定向我們保證，沒有任何靈修比常常默想我們主的苦難更有益於我們的救贖。
聖阿爾伯特·馬格努斯（聖托馬斯·阿奎那的老師）在一次啟示中得知，基督徒僅僅默想耶穌基督的苦難，就能獲得比他們每週五禁食只吃麵包和水，持續一整年；或者每週鞭打自己直到流血；或者每天誦讀整本聖詠集更大的功德。
摘自聖蒙福爾的《玫瑰經的秘密》
From St Faustina diary:
Take Jesus' words to heart: “There is more merit to one hour of meditation on My sorrowful Passion than there is to a whole year of flagellation that draws blood; the contemplation of My painful wounds is of great profit to you, and it brings Me great joy” (Diary, 369)
Jesus told me that I please Him best by meditating on His sorrowful Passion, and by such meditation much light falls upon my soul” (Diary, 267). Jesus told His little bride, “There are few souls who contemplate My Passion with true feeling; I give great graces to souls who meditate devoutly on My Passion” (Diary, 737).
He said, “My daughter, meditate frequently on the sufferings which I have undergone for your sake, and then nothing of what you suffer for Me will seem great to you. You please me most when you meditate on My Sorrowful Passion. Join your little sufferings to My Sorrowful Passion, so that they may have infinite value before My Majesty” (Diary, 1512).
St Augustine assures us that there is no spiritual exercise more fruitful or more useful for our salvation than to think frequently about the sufferings of our Lord.
St Albert the Great, who taught St. Thomas Aquinas, learned in a revelation that by simply thinking of or meditating on the Passion of Jesus Christ Christians can gain more merit than if they had fasted on bread and water every Friday for a whole year, or had beaten themselves with their discipline once a week till the blood flowed, or had said the whole book of psalms every day
From The secret of the rosary by St Montfort
