Michael Sliney

“Our memories are our own, and we cannot blame anything or anyone in the past for any pain dwelling there. If we open the door to them or keep hashing over past incidents in our minds, we have only ourselves to blame.”— Mother Angelica

“To pass from sadness to joy requires a birth, a moment of travail and labor, for no one ever mounts to a higher level of life without death to the lower.”

ArchBishop Fulton J. Sheen

“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.” ArchBishop Fulton J. Sheen

“Sometimes my worst day- one filled with pain and suffering- in the eyes of God, is my best day if I’ve born it cheerfully and I’ve born it with love.” Mother Angelica