Jenna

“what takes place in the act of faith is the destruction and renewal of the self.”
― John F. Thornton, The Essential Pope Benedict XVI: His Central Writings & Speeches

“Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to was never there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it. Where is there a place for you to be? No place... Nothing outside you can give you any place... In yourself right now is all the place you've got.”
― Flannery O Connor

“The humility to recognize the truth that makes demands on me and that I do not choose for myself”
― Benedict XVI, Salt of the Earth: An Exclusive Interview on the State of the Church at the End of the Millennium

“The father of this other view of political activity is Plato, who assumes that only one who himself knows and has experienced the good is capable of ruling well. All sovereignty must be service, i.e., a conscious act whereby one renounces the contemplative height that one has attained and the freedom that this height brings. The act of governing must be a voluntary return into the dark “cave” in which men live. It is only in this way that genuine governance comes about. Anything else is a mere scuffling with illusions in a realm of shadows—and that is in fact what most of political activity is. Plato detects the blindness of average politicians in their fight for power “as if that were a great good.”
― Pope Benedict XVI, Values in a Time of Upheaval: Meeting the Challenges of the Future