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“I learned that I was never alone, that there was Someone always very close by and, indeed, within me, giving me strength in times of weakness and desolation, light in times of darkness, joy in times of great sorrow and pain, and the will to struggle on when continuing seemed futile.”
― Joseph F. Girzone, My Struggle with Faith

“If you want to have peace of soul, learn to forgive. Jesus' secret was His ability to see into people's hearts. Seeing their anguish and pain helped Him to understand their nastiness. So He could pity them rather than become angry with them. That is what we have to do: try to understand the pain in people's lives...and not take personally what they do to us.”
― Joseph F. Girzone, My Struggle with Faith

“Woven into our lives is the very fire from the stars and genes from the sea creatures, and everyone, utterly everyone, is kin in the radiant tapestry of being.”
― Elizabeth A. Johnson, Women, Earth, and Creator Spirit

“Prayer finds its source in God's holiness and it is at the same time our response to this holiness.”
― John Paul II, Gift and Mystery: On the Fiftieth Anniversary of My Priestly Ordination