I think the oddest thing about the advanced people is that, while they are always talking about things as problems, they have hardly any notion of what a real problem is (G.K. Chesterton)
Quotes
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)
Inasmuch as many have undertaken to compile a narrative of the things which have been accomplished among us, just as they were delivered to us by those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and ministers of the word, it seemed good to me also, having followed all things closely for some time past, to write[…]
When you feel in need of a compliment, give one to someone else. (Saint John Henry Cardinal Newman, +1890)
Lord God, you called Saint Bruno to serve you in a life of solitude. Amidst this world’s changes help us, by his prayers to set our hearts always on you. (From the Collect of Saint Bruno, the Carthusian, +1101)
Prepare for great battles. Know that you are now on a great stage where all heaven and earth are watching you. Fight like a knight, so that I can reward you. Do not be unduly fearful, because you are not alone (Our Lord to Saint Maria Faustina)
Even though we are children and have a long, a very long and dangerous way to go, with such protectors what have we to fear? They who keep us in all our ways cannot be overpowered or led astray, much less lead us astray. They are loyal, prudent, powerful. Why then are we afraid? We[…]
…nearly ecstatic with the supreme joy in my soul, I proclaimed: O Jesus, my love, at last I have found my calling: my call is love. Certainly I have found my place in the Church, and you gave me that very place, my God. In the heart of the Church, my mother, I will be[…]
Everything must have in it a sharp seasoning of truth (Saint Jerome, +420)
Men do not fear a powerful hostile army as the powers of hell fear the name and protection of Mary.” St. Bonaventure