To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless. (G.K. Chesterton, +1936)
Quotes
It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them. (Hilaire Belloc, +1953)
The man who burns with the fire of divine love is a son of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, and wherever he goes, he enkindles that flame; he desires and works with all his strength to inflame all men with the fire of God’s love. Nothing deters him: he rejoices in poverty; he labours strenuously;[…]
Catholic education aims not only to communicate facts but also to transmit a coherent, comprehensive vision of life, in the conviction that the truths contained in that vision liberate students in the most profound meaning of human freedom. (Pope Saint John Paul II, +2005)
Wisdom is vindicated by all her children. (Luke 7:35)
I would rather die and come to Jesus Christ than be king over the entire earth. Him I seek who died for us; Him I love who rose again because of us. (Saint Ignatius of Antioch, +108)
Prayer is a friendly conversation with the One we know loves us. (Saint Teresa of Avila, +1582)
Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do. (Pope Saint John XXIII, +1963)
God has created me to do Him some definite service; He has committed some work to me which He has not committed to another. I have my mission. (Saint John Henry Newman, +1890)
Do not, I beseech you, be troubled about the increase of forces already in dissolution. You have mistaken the hour of the night; it is already morning. (Hilaire Belloc, +1953)