Father Michael Blog

“Each person’s task in life is to become an increasingly better person.” Leo Tolstoy

Loving your enemies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMUJkk7N-rE
“You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.” Leo TolstoyWithout prayer, it is simply too hard to love one’s enemies…we need God’s help!

God bless,Fr. Michael Sliney, LC

“Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.” Leo Tolstoy  Who better than our Blessed Mother can teach us this lesson of learning to love, especially when we are most hurting….

“Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.” Leo Tolstoy

“It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.” Leo Tolstoy

“But time given to wishing for what can’t be is not only spent, but wasted, and for all that we waste we shall be accountable.”– Penelope Fitzgerald, The Blue Flower

“You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.”
― William Faulkner

“I can’t imagine how anyone can say: ‘I’m weak’, and then remain so. After all, if you know it, why not fight against it, why not try to train your character?” Anne Frank