Inspirational thoughts

ttps://www.sophiainstitute.com/promotions/the-missionary-of-wall-street.  Please see the recent press coverage on Steve Auth’s inspired book.  Incredible read that brought both tears and joy to my heart. Read it and bring it to your fellow parishioners…We need more missionaries on the streets of your town!

“No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.”

– Virginia Woolf

“We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinner-time; keep back the tears and look a little pale about the lips, and in answer to inquiries say, “Oh, nothing!” Pride helps; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our hurts— not to hurt others.”― George Eliot, Middlemarch
Nothing more inspirational than a suffering soul singing like a bird in a thorn bush…

“We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community.”  Dorothy Day
      Besides having Christ as your best friend, find your band of brothers and sisters who both inspire and challenge you to reach your potential as a Christian leader…friends whose selflessness push you out of yourself and towards serving others!

“Without the rain there would be no rainbow.” G.K. Chesterton

“Do what you can, where you are, with what you have.” ~Teddy Roosevelt

Life is not always a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.      

Jack London

“The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.”- Mark Twain

“We need never be ashamed of our tears.” Charles Dickens

     Sometimes, it is ok and even a really good thing to let the tears flow freely….don’t be afraid to show your humanity!