Past Quotes

"Therefore, holy brethren, through the judge who is to come I ask you to help with prayers one who is straining under the burden. Let us pray for one another that we may be saved. For when we are joined to you by means of prayer, it is as if while walking through a slippery place we hold out our hands to help one another. So the charity of each is stronger because one depends on the others."

            -Pope Saint Gregory the Great

"The point is... that we should rejoice in our brothers and sisters at all times. That we should see Christ the Bridegroom in their person and presence. That we should celebrate them as the occasion demands."

            -Fr. Thomas Hopko

"You are an Easter people, and your song is alleluia!"

            -St. Augustine

"Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing."

            -Dorothy Day

"The way of perfection passes by way of the cross. There is no holiness without renunciation and spiritual battle."

            -Catechism of the Catholic Church, 2015

"To be full of the Spirit is to have your heart broken by the things that break the heart of God."

            -Tony Campolo

"Being a disciple means sharing without counting the cost. Being a disciple means sharing even when we least feel like it, when we least can afford to do it and when the person in need of our gift is the last person we wish to serve!"

            -U.S. Catholic Bishops

"One has to look forward with desire to relationships if one is to persevere in them."

            -Mary Therese Harrington, S.H.

"One of the greatest problems in the United States has been that we live faith as an abstract entity. Actually, however, such an abstract faith has little effect on our personal experience."

            -Bishop Carroll T. Dozier

"This is all I desire, to be where God wants me to be."

            -Bishop Frederick Baraga

"Everything dies a little when something dies a lot."

            -The Tinker King

"Love is ingenious."

            -St. Paul of the Cross

"The First Commandment is quite clear: We must put no other gods before the one God. No idols, superstitions, magic. Not money or career or self. Not the beautiful body or comfort or addictions. Not even our good relationships and projects. God must come first for us. Once we have that right, other things fall into place."

            -Auxiliary Bishop Anthony Fisher of Sydney

"Can any of you by worrying add a moment to your life-span? If even the smallest things are beyond your control, why are you anxious about the rest?"

            -Luke 12:25-26

"Amor ergo sum." (I am loved, therefore I am.)

            -Bishop Kallistos of Diokleia