Apostle

Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.

Steve Jobs

"Death is very likely the single best invention of life. Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life."

“Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don’t settle.”

Gregory the Great

Those who love their friends in God and their enemies for God's sake possess true love.

St. Jerome

"In the remotest part of a wild and stony desert, burnt up with the heat of the scorching sun so that it frightens even the monks that inhabit it, I seemed to myself to be in the midst of the delights and crowds of Rome. In this exile and prison to which for the fear of hell I had voluntarily condemned myself, I many times imagined myself witnessing the dancing of the Roman maidens as if I had been in the midst of them: In my cold body and in my parched-up flesh, which seemed dead before its death, passion was able to live. Alone with this enemy, I threw myself in spirit at the feet of Jesus, watering them with my tears, and I tamed my flesh by fasting whole weeks. I am not ashamed to disclose my temptations, but I grieve that I am not now what I then was" ("Letter to St. Eustochium").

reflecting the ages

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BXVl

"Where God is, there is the future"

Game on!

the helpers

Thomas Henry Huxley

"Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether or you like it or not. This is the first lesson to be learned."

task #1

Surround hate and force it to surrender.

francis desales

Never be in a hurry. Do everything quietly and with a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever -- even if you world seems upset.

john of the cross

God must work in the soul in secret and darkness because if we fullly knew what was happening and what transformation God would eventually ask of us we would either try to take charge or stop the whole process.

elie wiesel

what hurts the victim the most is not the cruelty of the oppressor but the
silence of the bystander.

A fisherman and his catch

attention to detail

It is good

“Joy, kindness and goodness grow only if the heavens above us are opened. The days aren’t always sunny... sometimes, we must cross through dark valleys.
Even then, though, we can remain joyous and human -- but only if heaven is open for us, only if we can be strengthened in the certainty that God loves us in full, that God is good and, through this, in the certainty that it’s good to be human....

So that people might be able to continue to say yes to life, to the future, it’s important that we don’t lose the splendor of the faith -- that we remain believers, Christians, Catholics, in the sense that Catholic always means “open to the world” -- the world of life and faith together -- something that means being tolerant and open, one to the other, in heartfelt brotherhood to everyone who belongs to our one Father and who are all loved by the one Lord.”

--Pope Benedict XVI
Remarks to a group from Traunstein (Bavaria)
Castel Gandolfo
30 July 2011