In life, as in restaurants, we swallow a lot of indigestible stuff just because it comes with the dinner.
We did not happen to be--we were chosen by God to exist.
The suffering of this life not only can make our temperament more like the Divine Personality of Jesus, but it detaches us from this world. This Divine preparation opens our souls to the working and pruning of the Father.
Where most men work for degrees after their names, we work for one before our names: Saint.
Our minds are so undisciplined that our doubts rule our lives and we don't master our imagination - it masters us.
Only in eternity shall we see the beauty of the soul, and only then shall we realize what great things were accomplished by interior suffering.
Lord # God , I praise Your Holy Name. Let every beat of my heart be a note of love in the symphony of my life.
I disappear from the public eye and get rediscovered quite often.
Most writers - poets in especial - prefer having it understood that they compose by a species of fine frenzy - an ecstatic intuition - and would positively shudder at letting the public take a peep behind the scenes.
For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.
To make the world safe for those who own it, politically active elements of the owning class have created a national security state that expends billions of dollars and enlists the efforts of vast numbers of people.