'A vocation is God calling beyond our own self understanding because He is calling us toward the person we will become. He knows us better than we know ourselves.This is how He shapes the Kingdom of God in your lives, marriages, and families ... through the faithfulness of love.'

Msgr. Duca

'Leave me here freely all alone, In cell where never sunlight shone, should no one ever speak to me, This golden silence makes me free.'

Part of a poem written by Blessed Titus Brandsma who died as a prisoner at Dachau concentration camp

'Suffering strips away that which is not eternal. It strips the blinders off.'

Father John Libone

'She'd been strangled with a rosary -- not a run-of-the-mill rosary like you might get at a Catholic bookstore where Hail Marys are two for a quarter and indulgences are included on the back flap of the May issue of "Nuns and Roses" magazine, but a fancy heirloom rosary with pearls, rubies, and a solid gold cross, a rosary with attitude, the kind of rosary that said, "Get your Jehovah's Witness butt off my front porch."'

Mark Schweizer, Hopkinsville, KY,
runner up in Detective category of2007 entries in the Bulwer-Lytton contest

'Truth is not determined by a majority vote.'

Cardinal Ratzinger

'Truth means having an openness to reality as it is, not as we would like it to be.'

Bishop O’Donell

(Understand I see my parish priest as a regular confessor, face to face...so we often begin with brief chit-chat before starting the ritual.)
Slightly sheepish about going to reconciliation on Saturday afternoon, the 4th of July, I smile a bit, sit and say "I'm really sorry. Sin doesn't take a holiday."
Not skipping a beat: "Not to worry. Neither does Grace."

from http://www.ironiccatholic.blogspot.com

'What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul.'

Yiddish proverb

“Am I?” I could not tell if he was amused or apologetic, but his eyes were kind. “The minds of my order are not as yours. We were made for swift intuitive clarity; you, to please God with the intricacy of your intellectual striving. Your powers of reasoning are sufficient for your needs, and you have been given grace enough.”

A conversation between a man and an angel, as told in On the People's Business, a short story by John C. Wright

'If you care about what people think of you, then you should have not become a Catholic.'

St. John Vianney

'More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.'

St. Theresa of Avila

'Nothing is politically right which is morally wrong. '

Abraham Lincoln