“The older I get, the more I meet people, the more convinced I am that we must only work on ourselves, to grow in grace. The only thing we can do about people is to love them.”
― All the Way to Heaven: The Selected Letters of Dorothy Day
― All the Way to Heaven: The Selected Letters of Dorothy Day
“The purpose of theology is to safeguard against misunderstandings that frustrate a Christian life of prayer.”
― Maximus the Confessor
― Maximus the Confessor
“He said it was better to belong where you don't belong than not to belong where you used to belong, remembering when you used to belong there.”
― The Wee Free Men
― The Wee Free Men
“The mercy of the world is time. Time does not stop for love, but it does not stop for death and grief, either.”
― Jayber Crow
― Jayber Crow
“Kindness is unconquerable, so long as it is without flattery or hypocrisy. For what can the most insolent man do to you, if you contrive to be kind to him, and if you have the chance gently advise and calmly show him what is right...and point this out tactfully and from a universal perspective. But you must not do this with sarcasm or reproach, but lovingly and without anger in your soul.”
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