Every disciplined effort has its own multiple reward.
The most devastating form of loneliness is not to be without friends; rather, it is to be surrounded by friends and never to be truly known.
God always wants our future to be bigger than our past.
You don’t have to go to Mass if you can tell me the one thing that you are going to do while I am at church with all your brothers that is more important than going to church and thanking God for another week of life.
The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.
If you don’t break from the tensions of daily living, they will break you.
Destruction always comes from within. It.
Life is about saying yes to the things that help you become the-best-version-of-yourself and no to the things that don’t.
The fundamental difference between pleasure and satisfaction is that pleasure cannot be sustained beyond the activity producing it.
When our children know more about teen pop idols than they do about Jesus Christ, isn’t it time for us to reassess the place and priority our faith has in our lives?
Michelangelo, the great Renaissance artist and poet, knew the value, power, and need for dreams when he wrote, “The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.” Our.
The hardest war to win is one you don’t even realize you are fighting, and the hardest enemy to defeat is the one you don’t even know exists. Every day you are at war with resistance.
Whatever change you desire for the world, create that change in your own life. You are here for a purpose. Seek it out. Hunt it down. The greatest misery is to be purposeless. The great depression of our age is not economic, but spiritual. Our spiritual poverty is rooted in our purposelessness.
It is perhaps the result of a culture that prefers us to be passive. The passive me says: “Feed me”; “Entertain me”; “Hold me”; “Love me”; “Listen to me”; “Tell me I matter”; “Make me a priority”; “Don’t make me think too much or work too hard”; and so.
A priest once asked Mother Teresa if she would pray that God would give him clarity in a choice he had to make. She told him, “God may never give you clarity. All you can do is trust.
Because the actions of your life are determined by your most dominant thought.
Religion is not something that you or I can touch. Religion is the worship of God – therefore a matter of conscience. I alone must decide for myself and you for yourself, what we choose. For me, the religion I live and use to worship God is the Catholic religion. For me, this is my very life, my joy, and the greatest gift of God in his love for me. He could have given me no greater gift.
The world doesn’t need another Mother Teresa. The Church doesn’t need another Francis of Assisi. The world needs you. The Church needs you.
If you want twenty minutes of quality time with someone you love, schedule three or four hours with him or her one afternoon, and chances are, somewhere in the middle of that three or four hours you will have your twenty minutes of quality time. When.
Too often in our modern culture, children are perceived as “nice to have” if you’ve got the time and the money and are prepared to suspend, or maybe even sacrifice, your career. Young couples today perceive the blessing of children not in relation to their true purpose, but rather in relation to their “quasi purpose” of financial independence.