Category: Quotes

“Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.”

~ Henry Van Dyke

“Into this world, this demented inn in which there is absolutely no room for him at all, Christ comes uninvited.”

~Thomas Merton, Trappist monk

“We should cease to imagine nuclear weapons as tools for us to manage, but rather as a curse we must banish.”

~Fr. Drew Christiansen, at the November, 2017 Vatican conference on nuclear weapons

Remember that charity is no substitute for justice. Charity alleviates the effects of poverty while justice seeks to eliminate the causes of poverty.

~William Sloane Coffin

“Clearly, the great mystery of life is that it is lived in an always flowing stream of change.  We are one person with one set of ideas at one age, and then, when we look back years later, discover that we became another person at another age.  The only certainty about it is the fact
that we ourselves decide both what we are now and what we intend to become.  And we make that decision one choice at a time.”

Sister Joan Chittister

Forgiveness does not change the past but it does change the future.

 There is absolutely no way of establishing what Trump believes. He says whatever he feels he has to say at any given moment to get attention, strike back at foes or advance his personal (especially economic) interests.

E. J. Dionne ~  Op-Ed writer for the Washington Post