Quotes

Let us remember the past with gratitude, live the present with enthusiasm, and look forward to the future with confidence. (Pope Saint John Paul II)

It is because of faith that we exchange the present for the future. (Saint Fidelis of Sigmaringen, +1622)

How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world (William Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice)

For I do not seek to understand in order to believe, but I believe in order to understand. For I believe this: unless I believe, I will not understand. (Saint Anselm, +1109)

I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment. (Hilaire Belloc, +1953)

O You who are mad about Your creature! true God and true Man, You have left Yourself wholly to us, as food, so that we will not fall through weariness during our pilgrimage in this life, but will be fortified by You, celestial nourishment (St. Catherine of Siena, +1380)

For me, life is the most beautiful gift of God to mankind, therefore people and nations who destroy life by abortion and euthanasia are the poorest. I do not say legal or illegal, but I think that no human hand should be raised to kill life, since life is God’s life in us, even in[…]

If you really want to love Jesus, first learn to suffer, because suffering teaches you to love. (Saint Gemma Galgani, +1903)

And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, full of grace and truth; we have beheld his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father (John 1:14)

Where, if not in the Divine Mercy, can the world find refuge and the light of hope? (Pope Saint John Paul II)