Father Michael Blog

“Things are seldom what they seem.” Sir William Gilbert

“If we work upon marble, it will perish; if we work upon brass, time will efface it; if we rear temples, they will crumble into dust; but if we work upon immortal minds and instill into them just principles, we are engraving that upon tablets which no time will efface, but will brighten and brighten to all eternity.” Daniel Webster

“In a word, the consumer of mass culture is lonely, not only lonely, but spiritually impoverished.”Walker Percy

“You can get all A’s and still flunk life.” Walker Percy

“It is easy to despise what you cannot get.” Aesop

“Complaint always comes always comes back in an echo from the ends of the world; but silence strengthens us.” G.K. Chesterton

“If you try to be anyone but yourself, you will fail; if you are not true to your own heart, you will fail.” Bob Dylan

“Only during hard times do people come to understand how difficult it is to be master of their feelings and thoughts.”
― Anton Pavlovich Chekhov