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"Lord today I let go of my expectations and accept what is and isn't in my life. I accept all that You choose to send and to bloom where You have planted me. Forgive my foolish desires and wants. Help me to accept the life You have given me and if I find my corner of the world a bit dark help me to become a light for it. To shine for You and live my life pleasing to You. That is all that matters. Amen"

'You well know that I preferred his company to all the delights of the world. But since it has pleased You to take him from me, I accept Your will completely.' -St. Elizabeth (on the death of her husband)

General Douglas MacArthur was so inspired by Samuel Ullman’s poem that he popularized it and kept a framed copy in his office while Supreme Allied Commander in Japan. He quoted it so often in his speeches that it became known as “MacArthur's Credo.” The Poem:

“Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years.

People grow old only by deserting their ideals.

Years wrinkle the skin but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

Worry, doubt, self-distrust, fear and despair . . .

these are the quick equivalents of the

long years that bow the head and turn

the growing spirit back to dust.

Whether 70 or 16, there is, in every being’s heart the love of wonder, the sweet amazement of the stars, and the star-like things and thoughts, the undaunted challenge of events, the unfailing childlike appetite for “What Next?”

You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt, as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear, as young as your hope, as old as your despair.

So long as your heart receives messages of beauty, cheer, courage, grandeur and power from the earth, from man and from the Infinite, so long are you young.

When all the wires are down, and all the central places of your heart are covered with the snows of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, then, and only then, are you grown old indeed, and may God have mercy on your soul.”

"In a world where there is so much noise, so much bewilderment, there is a need for silent adoration of Jesus concealed in the Host. Be assiduous in the prayer of adoration and teach it to the faithful. It is a source of comfort and light, particularly to those who are suffering." - Pope Benedict

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“I think that someday historians will look back upon our age of divorce, abortion, capital punishment, euthanasia, and war and say, ‘at least they didn’t smoke.’”
Dr. John Chalburg

"God is not proud ... He will have us even though we have shown that we prefer everything to Him."
C.S. Lewis

"Aspire not to have more but to be more."
Bishop Oscar Romero

"In the twilight of life, God will not judge us on our earthly possessionsand human successes, but on how well we have loved."
St. John of the Cross

"The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less."
Vaclav Havel

"It is much easier to conquer a country than to conquer ourselves."
Blessed Teresa of Calcutta

"The world promises you comfort, but you were not made for comfort. You were made for greatness."
Pope Benedict XVI

"Without forgiveness, there’s no future."
Reverend Desmond Tutu

"To be connected with the church is to be associated with scoundrels, warmongers, fakes, child-molesters, murderers, adulterers and hypocrites of every description. It also, at the same time, identifies you with saints and the finest persons of heroic soul of every time, country, race, and gender. To be a member of the church is to carry the mantle of both the worst sin and the finest heroism of soul because the church always looks exactly as it looked at the original crucifixion, God hung among thieves."
Fr. Ronald Rolheiser, O.M.I., "The Holy Longing"

'Drink wine, and you will sleep well. Sleep, and you will not sin. Avoid sin, and you will be saved. Ergo, drink wine and be saved. '
Medieval German proverb