Dear parents with young children in church....

You are doing something really, really important.

St. Peter Claver

“We must speak to them with our hands before we speak to them with our lips.”

Not a day

Not a day passes over the earth but men and women of no note do great deeds, speak great words, and suffer noble sorrows.

-- Charles Reade

Elie Wiesel...

I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

Beauty

Beauty is rarely soft or conciliatory.  Quite the contrary.  Genuine beauty is always quite alarming."  from Donna Tart's "Secret History"

Mother Teresa

"Love begins at home. Everything depends on how we love each other. Do not be afraid to love until it hurts, for this is how Jesus loved."

Let the stumbling block become the corner stone...

God has done everything possible to make you the unique saint that our world needs right now. The only thing that is in your way is probably yourself.

Good Theology

If your understanding of the divine made you kinder, more empathetic, and impelled you to express sympathy in concrete acts of loving-kindness, this was good theology. But if your notion of God made you unkind, belligerent, cruel, of self-righteous, or if it led you to kill in God's name, it was bad theology.

~ Karen Armstrong, The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness

Door of Integrity

Once you get to know them...

Far too smart...

Raw Love

Time and pressure...

If I've learned...

If I’ve learned anything from video games, it is that when you meet enemies, it means that you’re going in the right direction.

Keep the darkness at bay...

levels

Petrus

5 in white...