All Quotes

"Salt is good, but if the salt loses its flavor, how will you season it? Have salt in yourselves, and have peace with one another.”"

"It has been said that Catholic education before the council lacked heart and after the council it lacked head. I hope we are well on our way to striking a balance in the catechesis of our young people today. Colleen Carroll Campbell’s critically acclaimed book The New Faithful offers hope and direction to those interested in striking this balance by examining the differences between Baby Boomers and Gen-Xers in terms of Catholic education and formation. Campbell argues that in order to find this balance, it is imperative to stay rooted in the deposit of faith handed on by the apostles, while at the same time allowing that faith tradition to remain relevant and be salt and light in the modern world. This is at the heart of orthodoxy. But if we are not careful, the salt may lose its flavor and the lamp may make its way under a bushel basket."

"A member of the Church cannot abstain from his political commitment if he wants to be faithful to the command of Jesus to be leaven, salt and light for the society in which he lives."

"As a deeply committed believer, I hold a personal conviction that Christians can and should serve as salt and light within the realms of politics and government. I believe it is not only desirable but essential and achievable for believers to have a positive influence in these areas."

"‘If,’ said he, ‘the Father begat the Son, he that was begotten had a beginning of existence: and from this it is evident, that there was a time when the Son was not. It therefore necessarily follows, that he had his substance from nothing.’"

"Nathaniel Lardner, the author of Letter on the Logos, the work Priestley credited with his own conversion from Arianism to Socinianism, had published anonymously to avoid retribution from both the civil authorities and private citizens — in vain as it turns out."

"The problem that neither side in the controversy [regarding Jesus' divinity] had yet grasped was this: whoever presented a detailed explanation of the relationship of the Father to the Son could fairly easily be accused of heresy. This is because it was difficult, perhaps impossibly so, to describe Jesus' relationship to God in a way that did not seem either to deny his humanity (the Sabellian heresy) or to question his divinity (extreme Arianism). The real root of the difficulty was that Judeo-Christian monotheism posited an infinitely powerful, mysterious, single God who had created not only the world of people and things, but time and space itself. If Christ was actually this God, the human element in him seemed to dwindle into insignificance. But if he was other than God, then, unless one conceived of him as some sort of angel, he would be seen primarily as a man."

"We believe in one God the Father Almighty, maker of all thing visible and invisible."

"Men call physicians only when they suffer; women, when they are merely afflicted with ennui."

"To weep is not always to suffer."

"If you would succeed in the world, it is necessary that, when entering a salon, your vanity should bow to that of others."

"Homeliness is the best guardian of a young girl's virtue."

"We are people who normally would not mix. But there exists among us a fellowship, a friendliness, and an understanding which is indescribably wonderful. We are like the passengers of a great liner the moment after rescue from shipwreck when camaraderie, joyousness and democracy pervade the vessel from steerage to Captain's table."

"But what about the real alcoholic? He may start off as a moderate drinker; he may or may not become a continuous hard drinker; but at some stage of his drinking career he begins to lose all control of his liquor consumption, once he starts to drink."

"There is a solution. Almost none of us liked the self-searching, the leveling of our pride, the confession of shortcomings which the process requires for its successful consummation."

"The alcoholic at certain times has no effective mental defense against the first drink. Except in a few rare cases, neither he nor any other human being can provide such a defense. His defense must come from a Higher Power."

"Determination and hard work are the driving forces behind every great achievement."

"Rarely have we seen a person fail who has thoroughly followed our path. Those who do not recover are people who cannot or will not completely give themselves to this simple program, usually men and women who are constitutionally incapable of being honest with themselves."

"Half measures availed us nothing. We stood at the turning point. We asked His protection and care with complete abandon. Here are the steps we took, which are suggested as a program of recovery: 1. We admitted we were powerless over alcohol that our lives had become unmanageable. 2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity. 3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him."

"We are not saints. The point is, that we are willing to grow along spiritual lines."

"Our description of the alcoholic, the chapter to the agnostic, and our personal adventures before and after make clear three pertinent ideas: (a) That we were alcoholic and could not manage our own lives. (b) That probably no human power could have relieved our alcoholism. (c) That God could and would if He were sought."

"Resentment is the number one offender. It destroys more alcoholics than anything else."

"The spiritual life is not a theory. We have to live it."

"We are going to know a new freedom and a new happiness. We will not regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it. We will comprehend the word serenity and we will know peace."

"No matter how far down the scale we have gone, we will see how our experience can benefit others."

"We will intuitively know how to handle situations which used to baffle us"

"At twenty, man is less a lover of woman than of women: he is more in love with the sex than with the individual, however charming she may be."

"The life of a woman is a long dissimulation. Candor, beauty, freshness, virginity, modesty — a woman has each of these but once. When lost, she must simulate them the rest of her life."

"The ear is the last resort of chastity: after it is expelled from the heart, it takes refuge there."

"A secret passion defends the heart of a woman better than her moral sense."

"The heart of youth is reached through the senses; the senses of age are reached through the heart."

"Restif de la Bretonne undoubtedly holds a remarkable place in French literature. He was inordinately vain, of extremely relaxed morals, and perhaps not entirely sane. His books were written with haste, and their licence of subject and language renders them quite unfit for general perusal."

"Jealousy is the homage that inferiority pays to merit."

"In retailing slander, we name the originator, in order to enjoy a pleasure without danger."

"One seeks new friends only when too well known by old ones."

"The woman who loves us is only a woman, but the woman we love is a celestial being whose defects disappear under the prism through which we see her."

"A woman by whom we are loved is a vanity; a woman whom we love is a religion."

"Esteem is the strongest of all sympathies."

"Growing older, there’s also value in that as well. Older women have a responsibility to teach the younger women on what mistakes they can avoid so that each generation, we become better and better."

"I have this passion to help women heal, get over bitterness, find accountability."

"People evolve, you just have to try something new, and if it fails, then, okay, you learned from it. Try something else."

"I’m not too sure if I’ve really transformed, but definitely I’m slowly learning how to be the person I was created to be."

"Slowly I am shifting from getting my value from myself to getting my value from The One who created me."

"There is a big and beautiful reason why you were created, and I hope every woman will do their best to find out what that is and live according to her purpose."

"Every year I hope to get better, be more real and more wise."

"Find your purpose. From there, all the right dreams will follow."

"There’s really a process, and don’t be too hard on yourself, Remember, you are not alone and there is always a way out."

"Every day is a chance you get to change that one mistake, that bad choices or that deep regret you felt when you believed to have ultimately made the worst decision of your life."

"Take full accountability, learn well & finish strong."

"The pain & shame of a mistake can be the first step towards the best & wisest version of yourself."