Inspirational thoughts

“Reality is not neat, not obvious, not what you expect.” – C. S. Lewis

“No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.” Nathaniel Hawthorne

There’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
– G.K. Chesterton

“Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable.”

G.K. Chesterton

“Beware of no man more than yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.” G.K. Chesterton

“These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.”

G.K. Chesterton
I still remember the words of St. John Paul II in Denver for World Youth Day, 1993.  “Be proud to be Catholic!”  We know our warts and weaknesses and the Church is always in need of reform, but the Catholic Church was founded by Jesus Christ himself (and twelve “imperfect” Apostles), with over 2000 years of tradition and so many saints and holy lay people who continue to change culture every day with their holiness and glow. And we have the incredible gift of grace through our 7 Sacraments and the help of our Blessed Mother to keep us on track!

“Don’t ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.” G.K. Chesterton

“Love means loving the unlovable – or it is no virtue at all.” G.K. Chesterton
Hug your porcupines, walk with your skunks!

“What people don’t realize is how much religion costs. They think faith is a big electric blanket, when of course it is the cross.”  Flannery O’Connor

If we embrace the cross of Christ with love, God rewards us with the ineffable peace of Christ in our hearts…

 “All human nature vigorously resists grace because grace changes us and the change is painful.”  Flannery O’Connor