
Learning to listen

Fr. Michael Sliney, LC


“We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.” (Helen Keller)
“Life is like a game of chess. To win you need to make a move. Knowing which move to make comes with insight and knowledge and by learning the lessons that are accumulated along the way. We become each and every piece within the game called LIFE”
– Alan Rufus

“We’re into an age of excessive individuals, all right. We’re into the age of independence, autonomy, convenience, sometimes selfishness. The new trinity of me, myself and I, seems to dominate. We know that’s contrary to the very nature of the human person. The very nature of the human person needs God and needs other people.”
— Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan

“Stay with me, and then I shall begin to shine as Thou shinest: so to shine as to be a light to others. The light, O Jesus, will be all from Thee. None of it will be mine. No merit to me. It will be Thou who shinest through me upon others” St. Cardinal Newman