“Joy can only be real if people look upon their life as a service and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.” Leo Tolstoy

Fr. Michael Sliney, LC
“Joy can only be real if people look upon their life as a service and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.” Leo Tolstoy

“Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?” Leo Tolstoy

“Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.” Leo Tolstoy

“If one loves anyone, one loves the whole person, just as they are and not as one would like them to be…” Leo Tolstoy

“There is no greatness where simplicity, goodness, and truth are absent.” Leo Tolstoy

“Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed.” Leo Tolstoy

“Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.” Leo Tolstoy

“Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the words
And never stops at all.”
― Emily Dickinson

“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” Anne Frank
It all begins with prayer…
