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"Freedom exists not to do what you like, but for having the right to do what you ought"
-Jim Caviezel
"People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered;
forgive them anyway.
If you do good, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives;
do good anyway.
If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies;
succeed anyway.
Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable;
be honest and frank anyway.
What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight;
build anyway.
If you find serenity and happiness, there may be jealousy;
be happy anyway.
The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow;
do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough;
give the world the best you’ve got anyway.
You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and God;
it was never between you and them anyway."
"God doesn't give you the talents and gifts that you need until it's time to utilize them in the right way, and for Him, not for yourself"
-Mark Wahlberg
"Cheap grace is the exact opposite. That's asking for forgiveness without repenting, without confessing, is the complete opposite"
-Mark Wahlberg
"It's worth it to weaken our human flesh to let the fire and power of the Holy Spirit ignite in us"
-Taylor Alesia
"We're all called to carry our own cross. If you don't pick up and carry your cross, you will be crushed by the weight of it"
-Jim Caviezel
"Christ did not come to remove our suffering and pain. He came to call us to carry our cross with Him, to transform our suffering, and redeem our pain"
-Fr. Mike Schmitz
"Not sure what love is? St. Paul describes it for us in his letter to the Corinthians. Is this how you love God and others? 'Love is patient, love is kind. It is not jealous, [love] is not pompous, it is not inflated, it is not rude, it does not seek its own interests, it is not quick-tempered, it does not brood over injury, it does not rejoice over wrongdoing but rejoices with the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails.' (1 Cor 13:4-8)"
"Abraham had faith and steadfastly lived in hope...The promise he had received was fulfilled, and he accepted it in faith."
-Soren Kierkegaard
"I am the Way and the Truth and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me."
-John 14:6
"The road is narrow. He who wishes to travel it more easily, must cast of all things and use the cross as his cane."
-St. John of the Cross
"May the road rise up to meet you, may the wind be always at your back, may the sun shine warm upon your face, and the rains fall soft upon your fields."
-Irish Blessing
"Silence impels us toward an unknown land that is God. And this land becomes our true homeland."
-Cardinal Sarah
"Conquer yourself each day from the very first moment, getting up on the dot, at a fixed time, without yielding a single minute to laziness."
-St. Josemaria Escriva
"In killing silence, man assassinates God...
The death of silence is apparent. God will always help us to rediscover it."
-Cardinal Sarah
"The purpose of Lent is to give us the opportunity to trust God completely so we can see that He is all we need."
-Fr. Mike Schmitz
"Having arrived at this moment of my existence, I believe that no one of you think I want to hide the truth."
-St. Paul Miki
"Set aflame all the ways of the earth with the fire of Christ that you bear in your heart."
-St. Josemaria Escriva
"For all its barrenness, the desert is also a privileged place of encounter with God."
-Sr. Miriam James Heidland
"The Immaculate will conquer, through us, the whole world and every single soul."
-St. Maximilian Kolbe
"We must overcome ourselves every single day. We must offer up both great and small things for love."
-Mark Wahlberg
"Your accumulated offences do not surpass the multitude of God's mercies: your wounds do not surpass the great Physician's skill."
-St. Cyril of Jerusalem
"If you want to find someone who will listen to you in your troubles, find St. Joseph."
-St. Andre Bessette
"What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love."
-Fyodor Dostoevsky
"Although we may be able to do but little, the enemy nevertheless stands more in awe of those whom he knows can fast."
-St. Francis De Sales
"The deep, existential experience of my limitations, when mixed with wisdom, becomes that great power that impels us to community."
-Msgr. James Shea
"I have witnessed the affliction of my people in Egypt and have heard their cry against their taskmasters, so I know well what they are suffering."
-Exodus 3:7
"If our lives are spent for the glory of God, then life and death are beautiful."
-Midori Nagai
"Let us not accept violence as the way of peace."
-St. Pope John Paull II
"For us, death... is an encouragement and a stimulus. For them it is the end; for us the beginning."
-St. Josemaria Escriva
"Our addicitons are responses to our heart's sorrowful mysteries."
-Sr. Miriam James Heidland
"Real poverty hurts: no self-denial is real without this dimension of penance. I distrust a charity that costs nothing and does not hurt."
-Pope Francis
"Singing itself is almost like flying, rising up to God; it is in some way an anticipation of eternity."
-Pope Benedict XVI
"Love is more sensitive than hatred itself to every blemish in the beloved.. Of all powers He forgives most, but He confones least."
-C.S. Lewis
"Do you not see how necessary a World of Pains and troubles is to school an Intelligence and make it a Soul?"
-John Keats
"Every time you encounter a trial, every time you encounter an opportunity to deny yourself, remember: 'Enter into the wounds of Christ crucified.'"
-Mark Wahlberg
"Mary is completely turned to the word of the Son. She... does not speak. She simply wants to submit to God like a trusting child."
-Cardinal Sarah
"In danger I called on the Lord; the Lord answered me and set me free. The Lord is with me; I am not afraid; what can mortals do against me?"
-Psalm 118
"Christ is alive. Jesus is the Emmanuel: God is with us. His resurrection shows that God does not abandon His own."
-St. Josemaria Escriva
"Unless you've looked into the eyes of manacing death and felt its hot breath, you can't help another rise from the dead."
-Takashi Nagai
"The more we are afflicted in this world, the greater is our assurance in the next; the more sorrow in the present, the greater will be our joy in the future."
-St. Isidore of Seville
"Our Savior's passion raises men and women from the depths, lifts them up from the earth, and sets them in the heights."
-St. Maximus of Turin
"We are called to hate our lives in this world. We are called to fall down to the ground and die... If we lose our lives for His sake, we gain them for eternal life."
-Chris Pratt
"The profound silence of Holy Saturday is not a day of sadness but a moment of our being placed into the tomb with Christ."
-Cardinal Sarah
"Seek a refuge, like pure doves, in the shadow of the crucifix. There mourn the Passion of your divine Spouse."
-St. Paul of the Cross
"We can't let Holy Week be just a kind of commemoration. It means contemplating the mystery of Jesus Christ as something which continues to work in our souls."
-St. Josemaria Escriva
"Without mortifying the taste, it is impossible to preserve innocence, since it was by the indulgence of his appetite that Adam fell."
-St. Catherine of Siena
"The cross will never oppress you; its weight might cause you to stagger, but its strength will sustain you."
-St. Padre Pio
"It is sad that the darkest hour of the night comes just before the dawn."
-St. Thomas Fuller
"When Jesus had taken the wine, he said, 'It is finished.' And bowing His head, He handed over the spirit."
-John 19:30
"Today a great silence reigns on earth, a great silence and a great stillness. A great stillness because the King is asleep."
-Divine Office
"He has risen. This is the heart of our faith."
-Pope St. John Paul II
"We were willed by Christ Jesus, and even in the hour of his passion, death, and ressurection, everything was offered for us."
-Pope Francis
"The bodies of the saints will therefore rise again free from every defect from every deformity, and from every corruption, encumbrance, or hindrance."
-St. Augustine
"On the far side of every cross we find the newness of life in the Holy Spirit, that new life which will reach its fulfillment in the resurrection."
-Pope St. John Paul II
"God became man so that man might become God."
-St. Athanasius
"Let no one mourn that he has fallen again and again; for forgiveness has risen from the grave."
-St. John Chrysostom
"Christian hope does not deceive or disappoint because it is grounded in the certainty that nothing and no one may ever separate us from God's love."
-Pope Francis
"He wants life - not death, and joy - not pain, for His people."
-Pope Francis
"Out of the whole world one man, Peter, is chosen to preside at the calling of all nations."
-St. Leo the Great
"You are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of the netherworld shall not prevail against it."
-Matthew 16:18
"We are all in God's hands. Therfore, without fear, united hand in hand with God and among ourselves, let us move forward. We are disciples of Christ."
-Pope Leo XIV
"Christ is the teacher and the exemplar of all sanctity, and to His standard must all those conform who wish for eternal life."
-Pope Leo XIV
"The loveliest masterpiece of the heart of God is the heart of a mother."
-St. Therese of Lisieux
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