I think the world of Chuck Berry.
I would not be cured if the price of the cure was that I must leave the island and give up my work I am perfectly resigned to my lot. Do not feel sorry for me.
Turn all your thoughts and aspirations to heaven. Work hard to secure for yourself a place there for ever.
The Eucharist is the bread that gives strength. . . It is at once the most eloquent proof of His love and the most powerful means of fostering His love in us. He gives Himself every day so that our hearts as burning coals may set afire the hearts of the faithful.
I make myself a leper with the lepers to gain all to Jesus Christ.
I feel no disgust when I hear the confessions of those near their end, whose wounds are full of maggots. . . This may give you some idea of my daily work. Picture to yourself a collection of huts with 800 Lepers. No doctor; in fact, as there is no cure, there seems no place for a doctor's skill.
Without the Blessed Sacrament a position like mine would be intolerable.
Experience shows that Being is the essential, basic nature of the mind; but, since It commonly remains in tune with the senses projecting outwards toward the manifested realms of creation, the mind misses or fails to appreciate its own essential nature, just as the eyes are unable to see themselves.
Meditation is listening the inner song. The song of Love, Peace and Light
All art, like all love, is rooted in heartache.
What you think determines your outlook on life. What you do determines your destiny.