Justine

“Their greatest desire was to love each other. Desire. Isn’t that all that really matters? The desire to love and be loved and the desire to know and love God”
― Gary Smith, Radical Compassion: Finding Christ in the Heart of the Poor

“The notion of intrinsic motivation or self-generated drive is held as the ideal, but ADHD is characterized by motivation difficulties. There is nothing wrong with extrinsic motivation, using accountability to others and rewards to help you get engaged in a task, which you can think of as outsourcing accountability (which is not the same as outsourcing responsibility).”
― J. Russell Ramsay, The Adult ADHD Tool Kit: Using CBT to Facilitate Coping Inside and Out

“Thus says the Lord God: Woe to the shepherds of Israel who have been pasturing themselves! Should not shepherds”
― Creative Communications for the Parish, Reading God's Word 2026: Daily and Sunday Mass Readings Church Year A

“I know what I was in those days: unsteady, inconstant, a badly made bow. Every fault in me his raising laid bare. Every selfishness, every weakness.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe