Perspective

I just want to thank everyone who made this day necessary.

~ Yogi Berra

[find more YB quotes here:  http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/y/yogi_berra.html  ]

"I've searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees."

~ G. K. Chesterton

Day on Daily Life

"Today I thought of a title for my book, The Duty of Delight, as a sequel to The Long Loneliness.  I was thinking how, as one gets older, we are tempted to sadness, knowing life as it is here on earth, the suffering, the Cross.  And how we must overcome it daily, growing in love, and the joy which goes with loving."

~ Dorothy Day, February 24, 1961

The Individual Person

"Any well-regulated and productive association of men in society demands the acceptance of one fundamental principle: that each individual man is truly a person. His is a nature, that is, endowed with intelligence and free will. As such he has rights and duties, which together flow as a direct consequence from his nature. These rights and duties are universal and inviolable, and therefore altogether inalienable."

~Pope John XXIII, Encyclical "Pacem in Terris" 

Holy Fool

The "Holy Fool" is s/he who knows s/he doesn't know, and trusts God anyway!

Faith is ultimately not in figuring out the truth, but relating w/ God and trusting Him to reveal Himself in His own Good time!

Naked and In Harmony

The Garden of Eden was a place

"where all was naked and in harmony"

and the people

"were either loved very well at their center or who suffered very much around the edges, probably both."

~Rohr, Everything Belongs 


I feel that describes me!  Yet my life has not been the Garden of Eden!!

"In God's reign 'everything belongs,' even the broken and poor parts."

Because everything can be redeemed by God's Love.  (I don't know if Rohr would agree with my reason, but that's what I think.)

Scriptures Re: Labor

"Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest.  Take My yoke upon you, and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart; and you shall find rest for your souls.  For My yoke is easy, and My load is light."

~Jesus [Matthew 11:28-30]

St. Alphonsus Liguori on Tribulation

Tribulation opens the eyes which prosperity had kept shut.

ML on Justice & Mercy

The world is too big for anything but justice, and too small for anything but mercy. :)

Becoming A Pilgrim

"And thus, without knowing anything about it, I became a pilgrim."

~Merton regarding his unconscious and unintentional visiting of the great shrines of Rome, long before becoming Catholic.

Only Light

"I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy. Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that." - Martin Luther King, Jr