Eden Kearney

“To go against self is the beginning of salvation.”
― Benedicta Ward, The Sayings of the Desert Fathers: The Alphabetical Collection

“All chatter is unnecessary. Nowadays everyone talks but what is needed is action. That is what God wants, not useless talking.”
― Benedicta Ward, The Sayings of the Desert Fathers: The Alphabetical Collection

“Just as you can’t stop air coming into your lungs, so you can’t stop thoughts coming into your mind. Your part is to resist them.”
― Benedicta Ward, The Sayings of the Desert Fathers: The Alphabetical Collection

“I will state the following: I know not how the Christians order their own lives, but I know that where their religion begins, Roman rule ends, Rome itself ends, our mode of life ends, the distinction between conquered and conqueror, between rich and poor, lord and slave, ends, government ends, Caesar ends, law and all the order of the world ends; and in place of these appears Christ, with a certain mercy not existent hitherto, and kindness, opposed to human and our Roman instincts.”
― Henryk Sienkiewicz, Quo Vadis