Our Quotes

We always want to see people strive and see the human spirit triumph against adversity. That's what it's all about because that's what we're doing. We're trying to triumph in our lives.

Politicians are probably the most underrated people in our society.

Our lives are rivers, gliding free to that unfathomed, boundless sea, the silent grave!

We can't run from who we are; our destiny chooses us.

Sociopathy is the extreme manifestation of the way we socialize boys in our society.

It makes you wonder. All the brilliant things we might have done with our lives if only we suspected we knew how.

Instead of trying to conquer sin by working hard to change our actions, we can conquer sin by trusting Christ to change our affections.

Peace is not achieved by controlling nations, but mastering our thoughts.

To begin to meditate is to look into our lives with interest in kindness and discover how to be wakeful and free.

I believe... that our memories are part of one great memory, the memory of Nature herself.

What happiness this is: to fly, skimming over the earth just as we do in our dreams! Life has become a dream. Can this be the meaning of paradise?

Just as human activity is upsetting Earth's carbon cycle, our actions are altering the water cycle.

Grief is a healthy emotion, and it's healthy to embrace it. By accepting loss, we clarify our values and the meaning of our lives.

It's one of the most fundamental desires of man, of being free and flying unhindered, and it really seems to go a lot with our founding fathers' principles of freedom.

The great dialectic in our time is not, as anciently and by some still supposed, between capital and labor; it is between economic enterprise and the state.

But we never tell the truth. We cannot properly 'tell' the truth, because our words are crude tools to express something, 'the truth', which may well exist, but which we cannot define.

The Self is not in the realm of thought. The Self is in the gap between our thoughts. The cosmic psyche whispers to us softly in the gap between our thoughts.

Sometimes we have to do a thing in order to find out the reason for it. Sometimes our actions are questions, not answers.

You will never truly know yourself or the strength of your relationships until both have been tested by adversity.

Our love is like a song but you won't sing along.

Each of us, as citizens, has a role to play in creating a better world for our children

Our fear is not that we are inadequate, but that we are powerful beyond measure.

Language also encodes our past. We want to know who we are. To know who we are, we have to know who we used to be. Consequently, our literature, written in the past, anchors us in that past.

Nobody should ever mistake and think that our country [USA] is weakened, or that authority is diffuse and unspecified, and that we are vulnerable.

Our task - and the task of all education - is to understand the present world, the world in which we live and make our choices.

Is adult entertainment killing our children? or is killing our children entertaining our adults?

No short-cut that tries to bypass the patient unfolding of the true character of God, and our relationship to him as his children, can ever succeed in providing long-term spiritual therapy.

The foundation of our love for the Lord lies in the recognition of His holiness, our sinfulness, and His grace.

My husband and I were so closely united by our affection and our common work that we passed nearly all of our time together.

Light for every darkness, life in death, the promise of our Lord's return, and the assurance of everlasting glory.

Depend upon it, as long as the church is living so much like the world, we cannot expect our children to be brought into the fold.

I am extremely proud of my service with the government and my efforts to help safeguard public health and protect our country against the scourge of offensive biological warfare.

Choosing is a creative process, one through which we construct our environment, our lives, ourselves.

In my own words, I played some significant part in changing the social-sexual values of our time. I had a lot of fun in the process.

Our country today is at a stage in our foreign policy similar to that crucial point in our nation's early history when our Constitution was produced in Philadelphia.

We should never let reality interfere with our dreams. Reality can't see what we can see.

Religion teaches us that our lives here on earth are to be used for transformation.

Our daughter was born in Chicago, and she's already showing it. The temperature has to be approaching zero for her to wear a hat.

If it's crazy to call for putting police and armed security in our school to protect our children, then call me crazy.

There are moments when the heart is generous, and then it knows that for better or worse our lives are woven together here, one with one another and with the place and all the living things.

We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet.

If we're not able to be alone, we're going to be more lonely. And if we don't teach our children to be alone, they're only going to know how to be lonely.

Our past is a story existing only in our minds. Look, analyze, understand, and forgive. Then, as quickly as possible, chuck it.

Design is the fundamental creative activity with which we direct our lives, and collectively, the earth's transformation from its original, natural state into our human-made world.

We must put aside all judgment of our own, and keep the mind ever ready and prompt to obey in all things the true Spouse of Christ our Lord, our holy Mother, the hierarchical Church.

Be careful, therefore, to take part only in the one Eucharist; for there is only one Flesh of our Lord Jesus Christ and one cup to unite us with His Blood.

Every thought creates form on some level and all that our physical experience is - is a reflection of our thoughts.

We do not want our world to perish. But in our quest for knowledge, century by century, we have placed all our trust in a cold, impartial intellect which only brings us nearer to destruction.

Unlike stocks, where in our country, you go to sleep, everyone tells you everything is wonderful, you wake up and everything is gone.

Fear unchecked grows exponentially. Love poured forth has the power to remove it. Thus is the power of God in our lives