Maren

“Progress is the goal, the ideal is the type.
What is this ideal? It is God.
Ideal, absolute, perfection, infinity: identical words.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“The greatest disease in the West today is not TB or leprosy; it is being unwanted, unloved, and uncared for. We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread but there are many more dying for a little love. The poverty in the West is a different kind of poverty -- it is not only a poverty of loneliness but also of spirituality. There's a hunger for love, as there is a hunger for God.”
― Mother Teresa, A Simple Path: Mother Teresa

“Faith is necessary to men; woe to him who believes in nothing!”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.”
― Martin Luther