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“It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“Lifting our cup means sharing our life so we can celebrate it. When we truly believe we are called to lay down our lives for our friends, we must dare to take the risk to let others know what we are living.”
― Henri Nouwen

“One day, when I thought I was alone, I prayed in church. While making this offering before the cross, a parishioner came up to me, put her arm around my shoulder and prayed, ‘Dear God, please heal Father Jim. And give me his cancer.’ I was incredulous. I looked at her, and then back to the Lord and quietly prayed, ‘If she insists, Lord, hear our prayer!’ Later I was able to pray, ‘Lord, rather than give my cancer to her, give her heart of love to me – the love that prompted her to deny her very self and pray in such a loving way.”
― Jim Willig, Lessons From the School of Suffering: A Young Priest With Cancer Teaches Us How to Live

“What our closest friends do for us is to teach us true selflessness. We learn that while it might be safer for them if we keep them out, true friendship means letting them in. We cannot decide for them what they are willing to suffer with us and for us. While we certainly don't want to see our friends suffer, friendship isn't about protecting each other from pain so much as it is about helping each other to become what God has called us to be.”
― Mark Mossa, Already There: Letting God Find You

“The kind of emancipation that is being put forward today in technologically based cultures is crying out for women at last to become men. But this is not equality of rights: it is the ultimate oppression of women by a civilization in which the hegemony of technology implies the subjugation of nature and the subjugation of women -- the two are closely inter-related.”
― Joseph Ratzinger (Benedict XVI)

“The mark of man is initiative, but the mark of woman is cooperation. Man talks about freedom; woman about sympathy, love, sacrifice. Man cooperates with nature; woman cooperates with God. Man was called to till the earth, to "rule over the earth"; woman to be the bearer of a life that comes from God.”
― Fulton J. Sheen, The World's First Love: Mary, Mother of God

“Love is something worth suffering for...”
― Scott Hahn, Hope for Hard Times

“At the root of all misery is unfulfilled desire.”
― Scott Hahn, Hope for Hard Times

“[God] disciplines us for our good, that we may share His holiness.”
― Scott Hahn, Hope for Hard Times

“If you complain to someone, you assume that it's someone who really cares about you.”
― Scott Hahn, Hope for Hard Times

“Only when we cease to rely on our own strength can we discover that God's strength is always there for us.”
― Scott Hahn, Hope for Hard Times

“He gave our pain and struggles a holy significance, a redemptive power, which makes it a privilege for us to suffer with Christ.”
― Scott Hahn, Hope for Hard Times

“Ultimately, in the battle against lies and violence, truth and love have no other weapon than the witness of suffering.”
― Pope Benedict XVI, Jesus of Nazareth, Part Two: Holy Week: From the Entrance into Jerusalem to the Resurrection

“The risen Lord is the new Temple, the real meeting place between God and man.”
― Pope Benedict XVI, Jesus of Nazareth, Part Two: Holy Week: From the Entrance into Jerusalem to the Resurrection

“It is necessary for us to have an imperfect freedom so that we can give ... if we cannot give anything to God, we do not have a share in his Spirit, who by his very nature is Gift.”
― Wilfrid Stinissen

“We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.”
― Veronica Roth, Divergent

“...there is power in self-sacrifice.”
― Veronica Roth, Divergent

“And I'm the kind of person who does not let inconsequential things like boys and near death experiences stop her.”
― Veronica Roth, Divergent

“I never thought I would need bravery in the small moments of my life. I do.”
― Veronica Roth, Divergent

“I want to be brave, and selfless, and smart, and kind, and honest.”
― Veronica Roth, Divergent

“Sometimes it isn't fighting that's brave, its facing the death you know is coming.”
― Veronica Roth, Divergent

“It's when you're acting selflessly that you are at your bravest.”
― Veronica Roth

“You don’t believe things because they make your life better, you believe them because they’re true.”
― Veronica Roth, Allegiant

“I suppose a fire that burns that bright is not meant to last.”
― Veronica Roth, Allegiant

“I fell in love with him. But I don't just stay with him by default as if there's no one else available to me. I stay with him because I choose to, every day that I wake up, every day that we fight or lie to each other or disappoint each other. I choose him over and over again, and he chooses me.”
― Veronica Roth, Allegiant

“I belong to the people I love, and they belong to me--they, and the love and loyaty I give them, form my identity far more than any word or group ever could.”
― Veronica Roth, Allegiant

“The first step to loving someone else is to recognize the evil in ourselves, so we can forgive them.”
― Veronica Roth, Allegiant

“Just as I have insisted on his worth, he has always insisted on my strength, insisted that my capacity is greater than I believe. And I know, without being told, that's what love does, when it's right-it makes you more than you were, more than you thought you could be.
This is right.”
― Veronica Roth, Allegiant

“But now, I am also learning this: WE can be mended. We mend each other.”
― Veronica Roth, Allegiant

“In the days that follow, it's movement, not stillness, that helps to keep the grief at bay.”
― Veronica Roth, Allegiant