St. Gregory Quotes
There's a whole world all around more interesting, wonderful, terrifying, mysterious, amazing than any novel ever written. Pay attention. Take a chance. Dare life.
No one presumes to teach an art that he has not first mastered through study. How foolish therefore for the inexperienced to assume pastoral authority when the care of souls is the art of arts.
What is strange is that we may remember what we have done, but not always why we did it.
At its most elemental, a spell is no more than a recipe for change.
There is no force in the world better able to alter anything from its course than love.
We live in our tales of ourselves, she thought, and ignore as best we can the contradictions, and the lapses, and the abrasions of plot against our mortal souls...
Human life is a voyage on a sea of meaning, not a net of information.
To be wounded by the suffering of others is a gift of the Holy Spirit.
I think it is a part of growing up, learning to control our suffering.
Total confusion, disconnected nothing, absolute bewilderment. It's an enigma wrapped in a mystery, stuffed in a burrito, and smothered in taco sauce.
There is no elegance in hate, but there is tremendous beauty in the unintended revenge of living well and being happy.
There are few things more discomfiting than a spontaneous outburst of genuine decency from someone you’re determined to dislike for no good reason.
I looked at the people, then, and I saw how busy they were - how much industry and energy described their lives.
What is God's part and what is man's part? God's part is grace. Man's part is faith.
I make no apologies for you. After all, each one of us is little more than the meager residue of the infinite unrealized possibilities of our lives.
Some people experience rare moments when everything they believe is challenged. Or at least shaken up. Those moments stay with them. Surprise, real surprise, is an exotic thing not soon forgotten.
It isn't hard to find evil in this world. Evil is always more easily imagined than good, somehow.
One never learns how the witch became wicked, or whether that was the right choice for her- is it ever the right choice? Does the devil ever struggle to be good again, or if so is he not a devil?
To knock today's prestige dialects off their pedestals, it helps to realize that they are really foul perversions of yesterday's prestige dialects.
Bullshit makes the flowers grow and that is beautiful
They are a couple in love, and anyone but a fool would see it is simply that, nothing more- and certainly nothing less.
Earth and air, fire and water, the stars in their courses, the high tide of destiny and the Will of divine Providence are all arrayed against the forces of oppression. -- Louis Gregory
...he'd been able to deal with that pain because he'd accepted his own part in causing it
Mistakes are like bad loves, the more you learn from them, the more you wish they’d never happened.
And that would be my method of locomotion, the Lion concluded. Not diplomas earned, but friendships bungled. Campaigns aborted. Errors in judgment and public humiliations.
You leave home, I have learned, counting the trip day by day. If you ever get to return, you count the trip miracle by miracle.
Justice is not only the way we punish those who do wrong. It is also the way we try to save them
Do good though, will you?" She blinked brightly at the green girl. "If not for your parents or your grandmother, then for me?
And I'd learned, the hard way, that sometimes, even with the purest intentions, we make things worse when we do our best to make things better.
We are not ordered by God to judge each other. We are not even ordered by him to consider another person's sin. We are ordered by God to let Him consider it, to let Him be judge.
Was it an accident... or is it just that the world unwraps itself to you again and again as soon as you are ready to see it anew?
The thing about language is that once you start getting analytical about it, you can't stop.
Perhaps that's a smile on Delia's face-but Delia's half skull turns every expression into a leer. She says, "Your uncle had a talent, kid. He made families wherever he went.
For the first time in his life, he decided to focus on his math homework.
In the storm-lit darkness, the beaded sweat and raindrops on her arm were like so many glittering stars, and her skin was like a span of night sky.
Ah, Hannah, you have never longed to live as I long to live if you do not know that another day is the most precious thing.
Mistakes are like bad loves, the more you learn from, the more you wish they'd never happened.
Isn't that funny, that deity is passe but the attributes and implications of deity linger--