Michael Sliney

“Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.” St. John of the Cross

“Once the process [of conversion] is begun and continues…you are continually turning inward toward God and away from your own egocentricity…you have to see this selfish side of yourself in order to turn away from it.” Flannery O’Connor

“To have courage for whatever comes in life – everything lies in that.” St. Teresa of Avila

“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” –Robert Louis Stevenson

“Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.”

David Mitchell,  Cloud Atlas