"The most important man on earth is the perfect man who is not there. The Christian religion has specially uttered the ultimate sanity of Man, says Scripture, who shall judge the incarnate and human truth. Our lives and laws are not judged by divine superiority, but simply by human perfection. It is man, says Aristotle, who is the measure. It is the Son of Man, says Scripture, who shall judge the quick and the dead."
- G.K. Chesterton
"The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried."
- G.K. Chesterton
"We regard God as an airman regards his parachute; it's there for emergencies but he hopes he'll never have to use it."
- C.S. Lewis
"There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."
- Albert Einstein
"It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end."
- Ursula Le Guin
"Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase."
- Martin Luther King Jr.
"When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it."
- Henry Ford
"Faith is one foot on the ground, one foot in the air, and a queasy feeling in the stomach."
- Mother Angelica
"Where most men work for degrees after their names, we work for one before our names: 'St.' It's a much more difficult degree to attain. It takes a lifetime, and you don't get your diploma until you're dead."
- Mother Angelica
"The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that."
- Harper Lee
"There is no shortcut to any place worth going."
- Beverly Sills
"'Don't be bitter Anne-girl. You know you don't think it old-fashioned--you know you have the very same idea of sacredness of assumed responsibilities yourself. And you are right. Shirking responsibilities is the curse of our modern life--the secret of all the unrest and discontentment that is seething in the world.'"
- L.M. Montgomery (spoken by Gilbert from the Anne of Green Gables series)
"Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought."
- Blessed Pope John Paul II
"Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right."
- Abraham Lincoln
"If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal."
1 Corinthians 13:1
"If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one."
- Mother Teresa
"Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn."
- Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
"There are not one hundred people in the United States who hate The Catholic Church, but there are millions who hate what they wrongly perceive the Catholic Church to be."
- Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
"Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday."
- Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
"All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle."
- St. Francis of Assisi
"The miracles of the Church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always."
- Willa Sibert Cather
