Fer de Uña

“Sometimes difficulty clarifies things. And sometimes realizing that the road you’ve chosen is a demanding one gives you the courage to stay on that road. It reveals the nature of our relationship with God. It sounds cute and comforting to say “God is in control,” and people who say that may imagine sitting on their daddy’s lap behind the wheel of the family car, going “Vroom vroomy vroom!” while Daddy does the steering. In reality, when God is in control, it feels more like one of those movies where some amateur has to step up and land the airplane or steer the ship to safety through a crashing storm, with an expert giving them instructions remotely through a headset. In theory, following the expert’s instructions will help us get in safely; but our fear, panic, self-doubt, and lack of skill are not exactly comforting. Yes, God is in control, but we’re the ones who are in for a rough ride.”
― Simcha Fisher, The Sinner's Guide to Natural Family Planning

“Quien no anda en la verdad,
Hacia la ruina camina.
La primera medicina
Es saber la enfermedad”
― Leonardo Castellani

“¿Qué tratas de hacer ahora? Bautizar a unos hombres que no creen en el Señor para tu propio beneficio es un pecado y una profanación. Y también un acto de arrogancia mediante el cual cargas al Señor con los pecados de hombres sin fe mediante el sacramento del bautismo.”
― Shūsaku Endō

“We use a most unfortunate idiom when we say, of a lustful man prowling the streets, that he "wants a woman". Strictly speaking, a woman is just what he does not want. He wants a pleasure for which a woman happens to be the necessary piece of apparatus. How much he cares about the woman as such may be gauged by his attitude for her five minutes after fruition.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves