Cathy Sargent

“By 2000, six years after NAFTA was implemented, trade between Mexico and the United States had tripled, to $247 billion, and the four bridges that connected Nuevo Laredo to Laredo saw 60,000 trucks go north per week.”
― Dan Slater, Wolf Boys: Two American Teenagers and Mexico's Most Dangerous Drug Cartel

“Hope can sometimes be an elusive thing, and occasionally it must come to us with pain. But it is there, irrevocably. Like freedom, hope is a child of grace, and grace cannot be stopped. I refer once more to Saint Paul, a man who, I am convinced, understood addiction: “Hope will not be denied, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts.”
― Gerald G. May, Addiction and Grace: Love and Spirituality in the Healing of Addictions

“He had the look of one who has been with the Witch and eaten her food. You can always tell them if you’ve lived long in Narnia; something about their eyes.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (The Chronicles of Narnia, #2)

“when rightly practiced, asceticism is the human component of the mysterious incarnate intimacy of human intention and divine grace which holds the only real hope of victory over attachment. Like”
― Gerald G. May, Addiction and Grace: Love and Spirituality in the Healing of Addictions