Andy Castro

“But in that terrific tale of the Passion there is a distinct emotional suggestion that the author of all things (in some unthinkable way) went not only through agony, but through doubt. It is written, “Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.” No; but the Lord thy God may tempt Himself; and it seems as if this was what happened in Gethsemane. In a garden Satan tempted man: and in a garden God tempted God. He passed in some superhuman manner through our human horror of pessimism. When the world shook and the sun was wiped out of heaven, it was not at the crucifixion, but at the cry from the cross: the cry which confessed that God was forsaken of God.”
― G.K. Chesterton, The G.K. Chesterton Collection [34 Books]

“I had no schooling whatever while I was a slave, though I remember on several occasions I went as far as the schoolhouse door with one of my young mistresses to carry her books. The picture of several dozen boys and girls in a schoolroom engaged in study made a deep impression upon me, and I had the feeling that to get into a schoolhouse and study in this way would be about the same as getting into paradise.”
― Booker T. Washington, Up from Slavery

“The only real sadness, the only real failure, the only great tragedy in life, is not to become a saint.”
― Léon Bloy

“There are two ways of getting home; and one of them is to stay there. The other is to walk round the whole world till we come back to the same place ...”
― G.K. Chesterton , The Everlasting Man