Category Archives: Quotes
“Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings. And once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining it, you must make a mighty effort to keep swimming upward into that happiness forever, to stay afloat on top of it.” – Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
“My barn having burned to the ground, I can now see the moon.”
“Stand, be brave, be true, stand for your friends; believe, believe in all the things you have believed in… believe that courage is possible and words will come smoothly every time; no more Losers… believe in yourself, believe in the heat of that desire”
– IT by Stephen King
“There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear; for fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not reached perfection in love.”
-1 John 4:18
My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going.
I do not see the road ahead of me.
I cannot know for certain where it will end.
Nor do I really know myself, and the fact that
I think I am following Your will does not mean that I am
actually doing so. But I believe that the desire to please You
does in fact please you.
And I hope I have that desire in all that I am doing.
I hope that I will never do anything apart from that desire.
And I know that, if I do this, You will lead me by the right road,
though I may know nothing about it.
Therefore I will trust You always though I may seem to be lost
and in the shadow of death.
I will not fear, for You are ever with me,
and You will never leave me to face my perils alone.
-Thomas Merton
“Apartheid was a way a death carried out in the contrary to the Gospel of Life” – Fr. Michael Lapsley, on the necessity of the anti-apartheid movement
“For Jesus to stand to His full height, He had to leave the small, dark place of the tomb. For us to rise to our full stature, we must leave the small, dark places of life. We must leave the many and various tombs of this earthly life, and find our way to the broad, open and light-filled places.” – Br. Mark Brown, Society of Saint John the Evangelist
Ann Kathryne Urinoski 