• “Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.”

― Francis Bacon

• “The past can not be cured.”

― Queen Elizabeth I

• “We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe.”

― John Henry Newman

• "One should go to sleep as homesick passengers do, saying " Perhaps in the morning we shall see the shore."

― Henry Ward Beecher

• "And lilies are still lilies, pulled

By smutty hands, though spotted from their white." ― Elizabeth Barrett Browning

• "The lily is all in white, like a saint,

And so is no mate for me." ― Thomas Hood

• "How sweet on the breeze of the evening swells

The vesper call of those soothing bells, Borne softly and dying in echoes away, Like a requiem sung to the parting day." ― Letitia Elizabeth Landon

• "O the hard-boiled eggs! There are two corner-stones necessary for a picnic — sunshine and hard-boiled eggs."

― Norman Gale

• "The children of God are very dear but very queer, very nice but very narrow."

― Sundhar Singh

• “If someone puts love for their country, party, movement, idea above the truth about it, whatever it may be, that is not true patriotism, that is not a true fighter for an idea. That is a moral coward in search of an alibi.”

― Borislav Pekić

• “An apple is an excellent thing - until you have tried a peach.”

— George du Maurier

• “ I believe in God, the Master most mighty, stirrer-up of Heaven and earth. And in Jesus the Carpenter of Nazareth, who was born of proletarian Mary, toiled at the work bench, descended into labor's hell, suffered under Roman tyranny at the hands of Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead and buried. The Power not ourselves which makes for freedom, he rose again from the dead to be lord of the democratic advance, sworn foe of stagnancy, maker of folk upheavals. I believe in work, the self-respecting toiler, the holiness of beauty, freeborn producers, the communion of comrades, the resurrection of workers, and the industrial commonwealth, the cooperative kingdom eternal."

— Bouck White

• "In essentials, unity; in doubtful matters, liberty; in all things, charity."

— Unknown

• "Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living."

— Mary Harris "Mother" Jones

• “The limits of my language are the limits of my world.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

• “If you cannot find Christ in the beggar at the church door, you will not find Him in the chalice.”

— John Chrysostom

• “It is a strange sacrifice, where the body offers itself without the body, the blood without the blood!”

— Peter Chrysologus

• “God looks for faith, not for death. He thirsts for your promise, not your blood. Fervor appeases Him, not murder.”

— Peter Chrysologus

• “All healthy religion shows you what to do with your pain, with the absurd, the tragic, the nonsensical, the unjust and the undeserved—all of which eventually come into every lifetime. If only we could see these “wounds” as the way through, as Jesus did, then they would become sacred wounds rather than scars to deny, disguise, or project onto others. I am sorry to admit that I first see my wounds as an obstacle more than a gift. Healing is a long journey.
• If we cannot find a way to make our wounds into sacred wounds, we invariably become cynical, negative, or bitter. This is the storyline of many of the greatest novels, myths, and stories of every culture. If we do not transform our pain, we will most assuredly transmit it—usually to those closest to us: our family, our neighbors, our co-workers, and, invariably, the most vulnerable, our children.”

— Fr. Richard Rohr

• "Where there is no love, put love -- and you will find love."

— John of the Cross

• “Do you wish to honor the Body of the Savior? Do not despise it when it is naked. Do not honor it in church with silk vestments while outside it is naked and numb with cold. He who said, ‘This is my body,’ and made it so by his word, is the same who said, ‘You saw me hungry and you gave me no food. As you did it not to the least of these, you did it not to me.’ Honor him then by sharing your property with the poor. For what God needs is not golden chalices but golden souls.”

— John Chrysostom

• “He who gives alms in imitation of God does not discriminate between the wicked and the virtuous, the just and the unjust, when providing for men's bodily needs.”

— Maximos the Confessor

• “ Human beings have accumulated in their coffers gold and silver, clothes more sumptuous than useful, diamonds and other objects that are evidence of war and tyranny; then a foolish arrogance hardens their hearts; for their brothers in distress, no pity. What utter blindness! . . . Attend not to the law of the strong but to the law of the Creator. Help nature to the best of your ability, honor the freedom of creation, protect your species from dishonor, come to its aids in sickness, rescue it from poverty .... Seek to distinguish yourself from others only in your generosity. Be like gods to the poor, imitating God's mercy. Humanity has nothing so much in common with God as the ability to do good.”

— Gregory Nazianzen

• "Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."

— C.S. Lewis

• "All who seek truth, seek God, whether this is clear to them or not."

— Edith Stein