Inspirational thoughts

“Friendship with Christ, which forms the basis of faith, is not just one aid among many others for building the future; it is our guiding star.” Pope Leo XIV

“The way Jesus shows you is not easy.  Rather, it is like a path winding up a mountain.  Do not lose heart!  The steeper the road, the faster it rises toward ever wider horizons!”  St. John Paul II

“I leave myself in God’s hands to work out my sanctification as He planned. In order to arrive at what I cannot understand, I must go by the way I cannot understand. And each time that I make up my mind to do this, I am more convinced that He will lead me by the way of solitude. Every time I pray, get into my cloud, get recollected, that desire and that conviction deepen. I only need to leave everything absolutely to Him and go blindly where He leads me.” Thomas Merton

“Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.” St. John Paul II

“Leadership is lonely. I’m not going to be afraid of confrontation to get us to where we need to go.” Kobe Bryant

“There is no surer means of calling down God’s blessing upon the family than the daily recitation of the Rosary.” Venerable Pope Pius XII

“This heart, it beats for us in a small tabernacle where it remains mysteriously hidden in that still, white host.” St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross

“The holiness of God is like a white light: pure, simple, complete. But when that light shines, as it were, through the prisms of individual human lives, it breaks into an infinite variety of colors… each one reveals a unique dimension of the divine holiness.”  Bishop Robert Barron

“We shall, however, succeed in it by no other means than those employed by our Divine Head. Let us be thoroughly convinced that we shall do more work for the good of the Church, the salvation of souls, the glory of our Heavenly Father, in seeking first of all to remain united to God by a life of love and faith of which He is alone the object, than by a devouring and feverish activity which leaves us no leisure to find God again in solitude, recollection, prayer, and self-detachment.”  Blessed Columba Marmion

“Christianity is not a set of private convictions that we cultivate inwardly or whisper among ourselves. It is the message that the whole world needs to hear. We who have heard it must become agents of subversion and transformation.”  Bishop Robert Barron