Our Quotes

I am supposing, or perhaps only hoping, that our future may be found in the past's fugitive moments of compassion rather than in its solid centuries of warfare.

Our history is not our destiny.

I believe in living a poetic life, an art full life. Everything we do from the way we raise our children to the way we welcome our friends is part of a large canvas we are creating.

Psychologists have found that we are more likely, in looking back at our lives, to remember high points and dramatic shifts in far greater proportion than ongoing stretches of happiness or misery.

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.

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

We have heeded no wisdom offering guidance. Only by learning to love one another can our world be saved. Only love can conquer all.

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

And finally, in our time a beard is the one thing that a woman cannot do better than a man, or if she can her success is assured only in a circus.

Joy is our goal, our destiny. We cannot know who we are except in joy. Not knowing joy, we do not know ourselves.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Wisdom teaches us to do, as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a colour.

I didn't need to [run for presidency], but it's about you. It's about bringing our country, making our country great again.

To be alone with Jesus in adoration and intimate union with Him is the Greatest Gift of Love - the tender love of Our Father in Heaven.

Habits are where our lives and careers and bodies are made.

Our lives are but our marches to the grave.

I was suffering from a peculiar and persistent sense that I was being pursued, and also the conviction that under the political order of the times, our lives had no meaning.

Life on our planet is defined by the health of our ocean.

What is a clock? Something agreed upon and arbitrarily imposed upon us. Standard time. Not true time. Symbolizing the whole standardization of our lives.

Unresolved emotional pain is the great contagion of our time — of all time.

The glory of the world is transitory, and we should not measure our lives by it, but by the choice we make to follow our personal legend, to believe in our utopias, and to fight for our dreams.

Human beings, we have dark sides; we have dark issues in our lives. To progress anywhere in life, you have to face your demons.

By affliction prayer is quickened, for our prayers are very apt to grow languid and formal in a time of ease.

God enters the world through those of us who are willing to let God participate fully in our lives.

Our country is that spot to which our heart is bound.

Our politics are our deepest form of expression: they mirror our past experiences and reflect our dreams and aspirations for the future.

When we have peace in our hearts and minds, we draw peace into our lives.