Michael Sliney

“What embitters the world is not excess of criticism, but an absence of self-criticism.” GK Chesterton

“All the wealth in the world cannot be compared with the happiness of living together happily united.” ― Blessed Margaret d’Youville

“God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.” — Saint Augustine

“The Scriptures are shallow enough for a babe to come and drink without fear of drowning and deep enough for a theologian to swim in without ever touching the bottom.” -Saint Jerome

“To love means this: to serve and to give one’s life.  To serve, that is, not to put our own interests first: to clear our systems of the poison of greed and competitiveness; to fight the cancer of indifference and the worm of self-referentiality; to share the charisms and gifts that God has given  us.  Specifically, we should ask ourselves, “What do I do for others?”  That is what it means to love, to go about our daily lives in a spirit of service, with unassuming love and without seeking any recompense.”

POPE FRANCIS