Fr. Michael Sliney, LC
“You will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do.”
– David Foster WallaceLive for God and focus on pleasing him…you will never win over the world and only God’s love can fully satisfy your heart.
“We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, we must not break our bonds of affection.” Abraham Lincoln
“Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness.”
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground
“Challenges make life interesting, however overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” —Mark Twain
“What embitters the world is not excess of criticism, but an absence of self-criticism.” G.K. Chesterton
“Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
“What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.” —Plutarch
These inner battles of the soul to not judge others, to be forgiving and magnanimous in our thoughts,… are huge spiritual victories which deeply affect those around us….none of which is possible without God’s grace!
“The best way out is always through.” ~Robert Frost Sometimes, in life we need to just hang in there and keep going, trusting that God will not give us more than we can handle and will provide a way out.
“People say, what is the sense of our small effort? They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time. A pebble cast into a pond causes ripples that spread in all directions. Each one of our thoughts, words and deeds is like that. No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There is too much work to do.” Dorothy Day
