Stephen

“Nostalgia - the nostalgia for our roots - is a healthy feeling, since people with no roots are lost, and a person with no roots is sick. Roots give us the strength to move forward, to bear fruit, to blossom”
― Pope Francis, Hope: The Autobiography

“Characteristically, I asked no one’s advice. I just prayed and fought with myself—and finally decided, since it was so hard, I would do it. God must have a special Providence for hard-headed people like me.”
― Walter Ciszek

“To try to reduce democracy to technocracy, and to expel from it the Gospel inspiration together with all faith in the supra-material, supra-mathematical, and supra-sensory realities, would be to try to deprive it of its very blood. Democracy can only live on Gospel inspiration.”
― Jacques Maritain, Man and the State

“So we took our books and went back over a hundred years of Italian history in search of a "just war." It's not our fault if we didn't find one.”
― Don Lorenzo Milani