Charity Dušíková

“CHAPTER 2 THE MOTHERS OF JESUS This is the genealogy of Jesus the Messiah. . . . Judah the father of Perez and Zerah, whose mother was Tamar . . . Boaz the father of Obed, whose mother was Ruth . . . David . . . the father of Solomon, whose mother had been Uriah’s wife . . . Joseph, the husband of Mary, and Mary was the mother of Jesus who is called the Messiah. . .”
― Timothy J. Keller, Hidden Christmas: The Surprising Truth Behind the Birth of Christ

“For the parents who had taught one child to meet death without fear, were trying now to teach another to accept life without despondency or distrust, and to use its beautiful opportunities with gratitude and power.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“Prayer: Lord, grant that I may
seek rather to comfort than to be
comforted; to understand rather
than be understood; to love rather
than be loved, for it is by forgetting
self that one finds. It is by forgiving
that one is forgiven. It is by dying
that one awakens to eternal life.
Amen.”
― Mother Teresa, The Joy in Loving: A Guide to Daily Living

“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”
― C. S. Lewis