All Quotes

"“He is not alien to our suffering. He understands every bit of it, because He himself suffered to the point of death.”"

"“God is someone you can never outgive.”"

"“...the more we give according to God's purpose, all the more we receive as well. This principle seems counter-intuitive, and if we think about it, supernatural economy is really only possible when we take our cue from an infinite God, who, by merely saying a word, created the stars and the heavens!”"

"“The purpose of our generosity then, beyond helping others, is to cause overflowing gratitude and praise for our good God.”"

"“What we spend our time and resources on reveals our character.”"

"“God wants to give us His best, but we must be ready to cut ties with whatever does not honor Him.”"

"“That by having God's Word in our life, we actually have Him and that because we have Him, we actually have everything.”"

"“All I know is that when I gave what was in my hand, God gave what was in His. And His hands are far larger than mine. So large they fashioned an entire universe!”"

"“His ambition for us is greater than our biggest dreams.”"

"“I have nothing to fear. This is not punishment. It's part of being in a fallen world, but Jesus has conquered my sin and the grave. Nobody else can claim me but God Himself, in all His goodness and victory!”"

"“From our end the call is simple: To love others despite our differences.”"

"“I have made many, many bad choices in my life, but I thank God I got this one right.”"

"Not every delay is denial, some are preparation."

"Life rarely unfolds as a clean record of right decisions."

"I totally understand the desire to share God with other people but when you are not careful in doing it, whereby you sound self-righteous and all, then do not expect the message to come through. Love before judgment is the way of God."

"To be able to move is a privilege. And to progress to strength? Now that’s priceless. But to do it in different ways and in different places, now that’s wholeness. It’s holistic. Moving strong in every way, anytime, anywhere."

"“Actually, you are never the same again after your first child. And we can mourn that — the loss of independence, freedom, self, in the process.”"

"“Nevertheless, in my case, I find that it is all worth it. One because of the wonderful human beings I am privileged to love in this lifetime and two, because of the wonderful human being I have become because of all that motherhood asked from me.”"

"“Watching this happen yesterday broke my heart in a million little pieces.”"

"This hallway, next to my own home, has been the space of my childhood. Everything feels different while also everything feels familiar. Like it was only yesterday.""

"Whoever he ends up with, I hope she takes care of him."

"I stand grateful and sorry for asking God to explain matters to me. I am reminded of my faith in Him that should remain unwavering, despite life’s challenges."

"God takes care of widows, he never leaves those who abide in Him. I thank Him for all his blessings and wait on His directions, I let go and let God!."

"Watching my husband struggle for dear life and helplessly die in front of me, is one thing I wish no one would ever experience. I was hurt, felt betrayed, angry, and lost in my misery. I cried triggered by painful memories. I am grateful for having thoughtful sisters-in-law, loving sisters, understanding step children, caring children and loving grand children."

"I've been through a lot of realizations understood why, not really understanding, but making my own reasons why probably God took him first. But I'm better now and this [House of D show is] helping me a lot kasi sabi ko gusto ko na mag-work kasi parang (because I said I want to work because it seems) I'm so depressed, I want to get out of my depression. Parang (Like) I want to be busy, I want to do things and I wanted instead of looking at my grief parang (Like) how can I make other people happy? Change the negative to positive. How can I inspire people?"

"Parang (Like) a voice was telling me: 'Why are you focusing on what you don't have, on what you no longer have? Why don't you focus on what you still have, to start all over again or to prosper yourself, to glorify My name or to do something that has purpose in your life?"

"Every day I would pray lang (just pray); para bang (as if) Lord order my steps, bring me to where I need to be to be able to fulfill your purpose in my life. Bring the right people to me at the right time, at the right place. Open my eyes, open my ears so I can see the doors of opportunity that are opened to me."

"I have to forget about all that legacy stuff for me to even function because kung inisip ko siya, then I would never have entered showbiz."

"A career is a marathon, not a sprint… I really had to take the pressure off to be comfortable being a beginner."

"If you had asked me five years ago where I'd be now, I would never have guessed. So, I can't answer because I'll probably give you the wrong answer. But hopefully, I'm able to produce projects that I have chosen, that I built the team for, and that have a really wide audience. And that I'm still happy doing what I love with the people I love."

"They say artista daw dapat stick to acting, stay apolitical, wag ka nang sumawsaw. But on the other hand, flip side of that, artists are citizens of this country as well. They have a voice, they have a unique position na because of their popularity mas pakikinggan sila."

"We should not just depend on prayers but must also work hard to respond to the economic hardships the Country is facing. For prayer to yield results, it has to go with action. No matter how many times Zambians will cry and shout to God for help to improve the Country's economy, their prayers will yield nothing in the absence of hard work."

"To be worthy of the affection shown to me, my gratitude must not be spoken, nor even felt. It must be lived"

"the logical purpose of our life is, as it should be, to form a confederation of insular peoples who will help the continental peoples of our Western hemisphere to complete civilization, extend it and make it sound: to complete civilization by giving the Latin branch of America the legal strength the Anglo-American branch has, to extend it by carrying it East, to make it sound by filling it with the youthful breath of new societies."

"The hardest thing about revolutionary life is the relationships it imposes."

"Outraged at having so many reasons to scorn so many people, I tell the naked truth. Perhaps it is the best policy for men and times like these."

"When will we leave the decency and self-denial and disinterest in fortune and life, of which we have given more proof than has been demanded of us? When will we have better occasion to die as good men and triumph as dignified men? When will we leave this dismal solitude that weakens us and in which we deeply harm ourselves by not doing all the good that we can for our country?"

"The day I descend to favoritism, and do myself the injustice of supporting personal interests, I will have put my patriotism at the level of people, and the average height of five feet is too short for my ideas."

"My conscience tells me that my life’s greatest desire, the absolute independence of the Antilles-so very possible because of the geographical and economic conditions of these societies-would be a difficult task for the generation destined to conquer it, which has already heroically begun to conquer it, if this generation is not cured in time of two vices with which despotism has infected our people. From the first vice, an inevitable product of the pathetic principle of authority that smothered our human dignity in addition to our liberty, comes a false idea of liberty. The second vice, a cursed creation of autocratic government, produces the habit of entrusting others with what we should do for ourselves. The first breeds anarchy; the second begets dictators; they complement each other, and wherever systematic hatred for authority produces anarchy, the people have an idol that enslaves them; and wherever there is political idolatry, there is a latent or patent state of anarchy. A society that suffers these evils is not free. And if I want the absolute independence of the Antilles, it is because I want to prove to our slanderers that the Antilles can be free."

"A life devoted to good things has authority everywhere."

"The more I love the cause I represent, the more I wish its enemies worthy of it, and far from finding an argument against justice, I discover an argument in favor of it, when the same people who acknowledge justice combat it out of interest, weakness, worry, or error fight it. There may be a noble sacrifice in defending an unjust cause: there isn’t a noble man who fails to condemn injustice."

"No longer does patriotism alone oblige us to defend our country against whomever might jeopardize her, but conscience also orders us to do what is good, and currently the only good thing in Puerto Rico is the cause defended by the League of Patriots. Nothing else is good: The North Americans’ work is evil, the Puerto Ricans’ work is evil. The North Americans; Impassively watching the Puerto Ricans die and kill each other, dying of hunger and killing out of envy…"

"I do not believe brute force worthy of admiration whether I see it in everyday history or it is presented to me adorned, adulated, and admired in past history; however, I do believe worthy of greater attention and concern the obvious fact that the North Americans sent to Puerto Rico and the North Americans of the government that sends them are proceeding in Puerto Rico like a brute force. In which direction is that brute force headed? In the direction of extermination. It is not nor can it be a confessed intention, but it is an unconfessed belief held by the barbarians who attempt to popularize conquest and imperialism from the Executive Branch of the United States, that to absorb Puerto Rico they must exterminate her; and naturally, they see hunger and envy exterminating Puerto Ricans as a fact that concurs with their design, and they cold-heartedly allow it to happen."

"Instead of a plan for government which would have Americanized Borinquen - insofar as Americanism is good - and which would have prepared her to effectively exercise her independence in everyday life with the other peoples of the Earth, McKinley and his partisans, who do not look beyond keeping the Republican Party in power, saw nothing in Puerto Rico but a field for exploitation they believed to be opening up to the avarice of their supporters or to the vain glory of the American masses. Is that good?"

"The heart of Christ, as the symbol of the deepest and most personal source of his love for us, is the very core of the initial preaching of the Gospel. It stands at the origin of our faith, as the wellspring that refreshes and enlivens our Christian beliefs."

"The pierced heart of Christ embodies all God’s declarations of love present in the Scriptures. That love is no mere matter of words; rather, the open side of his Son is a source of life for those whom he loves, the fount that quenches the thirst of his people. As Saint John Paul II pointed out, “the essential elements of devotion [to the Sacred Heart] belong in a permanent fashion to the spirituality of the Church throughout her history; for since the beginning, the Church has looked to the heart of Christ pierced on the Cross”."

"I made a submission opposing the Civil Union legislation. Marriage is a civil and political right, and civil and political rights are not negotiable. You can't have half a right."

"It can also be rich and fulfilling."

"If you got this far, I want you to go on. Kia kaha tuahine - sister, be strong."

"Eugenio María de Hostos was a patriot, and also a symbol of the moral meaning of our homeland. Its most prominent virtues were incarnate in him, and in bringing them together he enriched them with his spiritual action and illuminated them with purer shades of light. Like a cutter, he knew how to cut the diamond's facets in order to achieve the greatest luminosity. The sentiment of the homeland was always the basis on which his acts were founded, acts that are, truly, love along with good reasons. In order to serve the homeland he formed himself in a severe discipline of science and conscience. And he devoted himself completely to the work of the moral expansion of Puerto Rico. This man, and so much a man, so conscious of human dignity, a man as strong as one of our ceibas, silk-cotton trees, as firm and passionate as the tropical winds, knew that the homeland, like men, can only be fulfilled in the tonic air of liberty. He lived and suffered calvary for the liberty of Puerto Rico. In no moment a vile consideration, a weakness of the flesh, a temptation of power and glory, separated him from his goal or weakened the intensity of his desires. On many occasions he went far from the homeland because they put obstacles before his actions or because he considered that he could carry them out more efficiently from afar. When he returned from forced or self-exile, faith in the reason of his yearning shone and cut like a sword. Constant sacrifice and self-abnegation lend austerity and genuine nobility to his moral figure. The name of Hostos is an emotion; it has the magic of shaking our spirit to its roots; his thought in constant creative acts, his deeds burning and clean as a mirror, his love for others, and his confidence in spiritual values constitute a valuable heritage for us Puerto Ricans. Let Hostos be an example and mentor for university youth. The homeland was never so in need of the love of its sons, never were its virtues and its dignity more sullied. Let this youth rush to prompt remedy; let it imitate Hostos; let it devote itself like him to an impassioned labor; let it save Puerto Rico with deeds, without wasting itself on empty words; let it love liberty and exercise it with the dignity proper of men. Then and only then will it be worthy of pronouncing, without besmirching it, the prominent name of Eugenio María de Hostos."