Kevin O'Meara

“Only in self-sacrifice can man live fully as man, Catholic teaching states. Some people sacrifice for an idea, but really, John Paul argues, we give up our lives only for other people—or for God. And that true sacrifice requires love, which in turn requires true human contact. Community bonds make that love real. And so these two popes show us that true inclusion of the poor—by living in community with them—is the only way to carry out our duty to serve the poor.”
― Timothy P. Carney, Alienated America: Why Some Places Thrive While Others Collapse – A Washington Post Bestseller: Church, Community, and the American Dream

“Whereas, if the Devil offer unto a good man all the pleasures, and profits, and honors of the world, he will not sin for the sake thereof, and wrong his own soul. ‘No,’ he says to the Devil.”
― Marilynne K. Roach, The Salem Witch Trials: A Day-by-Day Chronicle of a Community Under Siege

“Never do something that a thousand other people are doing.”
― Walter Isaacson, The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race