QUOTATION: Grace Hurts

This notion that grace is healing omits the fact that before it heals, it cuts with the sword Christ said He came to bring.

--Flannery O'Connor

QUOTATION: Fear of Men

We fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another.

--G.K. Chesterton

QUOTATION: The Suffering of the Damned

The greatest suffering of the damned is not physical, but moral suffering. Their greatest punishment is in the imagination, their memory, and their understanding.

--St. Peter Julian Eymard

QUOTATION: Why did Christ show Himself to so few witnesses after He rose from the dead?

Why did Christ show Himself to so few witnesses after He rose from the dead? Because He was a King, a King exalted upon God's "Holy hill of Zion;" as the Psalm says which contains the text. Kings do not court the multitude, or show themselves as a spectacle at the will of others. They are the rulers of their people, and have their state as such, and are reverently waited on by their great men: and when they show themselves, they do so out of their condescension. They act by means of their servants, and must be sought by those who would gain favours from them.

--Blessed John Henry Newman, "Christian Reverence", Parochial and Plain Sermons

QUOTATION: Getting Over It

Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go to move forward.

--C.S. Lewis