QUOTATION: Beautiful Losers?

When you stand on the side of God, you do not necessarily stand on the side of success. Good fortune often seems to pamper precisely the cynics. How are we to understand this? The psalmist finds the answer by standing before God, in whose presence he grasps the ultimate insignificance of material wealth and success and recognizes what is truly necessary and what brings salvation.

--Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI), Milestones: Memoirs 1927-1977

QUOTATION: Doing God's Will

When one thinks he has done all that God requires of him for the success of any undertaking whether the result be good or bad, he ought always to remain in peace and great tranquillity of mind, contending himself with the testimony of his own conscience. 

--St. Vincent de Paul