The vices are, indeed, let loose, and they wander and do damage. But the virtues are let loose also; and the virtues wander more wildly, and the virtues do more terrible damage. The modern world is full of the old Christian virtues gone mad. (G.K. Chesterton, from his Orthodoxy)
Quotes
Work together in harmony: struggle together, run together, suffer together, rest together, rise together, as stewards, advisors and servants of God. Seek to please him whose soldiers you are and from whom you draw your pay; let none of you prove a deserter. Let your baptism be your armour, your faith your helmet, your charity[…]
Like a farmer tending a sound tree, untouched by axe or fire because of its fruit, I want not only to serve you in the body, good people that you are, but also to give my life for your well-being. (Saint Eusebius of Vercelli, +371)
Marriage is a duel to the death which no man of honour should decline. (G.K. Chesterton)
For nothing so much wins love as the knowledge that one’s lover desires most of all to be himself loved. (Saint John Chrysostom, +407)
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves. (Edmund Hilary, born July 20, 1919)
On the third day the friends of Christ coming at day-break to the place found the grave empty and the stone rolled away. In varying ways they realized the new wonder; the world had died in the night. What they were looking at was the first day of a new creation, with a new heaven[…]
You are young, and the Pope is old…But the Pope still fully identifies with your hopes and aspirations. Although I have lived through much darkness, under harsh totalitarian regimes, I have seen enough evidence to be unshakeably convinced that no difficulty, no fear is so great that it can completely suffocate the hope that springs[…]
If we wish to help our neighbour, we must reserve for ourselves neither place, nor hour, nor time. (Saint Philip Neri, +1595)
Let us die, then, and enter into the darkness, silencing our anxieties, our passions and all the fantasies of our imagination. Let us pass over with the crucified Christ from this world to the Father, so that, when the Father has shown himself to us, we can say with Philip: It is enough. (Saint Bonaventure, +1274)