QUOTATION: Closeness to God

The closer a person is to God, the closer he is to people.

--Pope Benedict XVI

QUOTATION: The Gospel of Life

The Gospel of Life is not for believers alone: it is for everyone. The issue of life and its defense and promotion is not a concern of the Christian alone. Although faith provides special light and strength, this question arises in every human conscience which seeks the truth and which cares about the future of humanity. Life certainly has a sacred and religious value, but in no way is that value a concern only of believers. The value at stake is one which every human being can grasp by the light of reason; thus it necessarily concerns everyone.

--Pope St. John Paul II

QUOTATION: Consciousness

Consciousness, after all, (1) cannot be denied without self-contradiction (that’s Descartes’ point in“I think therefore I am”), but (2) it has none of the properties that characterize that is material (shape, size, mass, etc.), and (3) it has properties that are not material (e.g., “truth”). The existence of consciousness seems to immediately refute materialism.

--Peter Kreeft, Letters to an Atheist, 2014

QUOTATION: Zeal

Zeal does not consist in continual preaching, in giving good advice, in constantly exhorting to virtue, but rather in giving good example. Example impresses much more than words, and through it we often obtain astonishing results.

--St. Mary Euphrasia Pelletier, Conferences and Instructions

QUOTATION: Holiness

Not all saints have the same sort of holiness. There are those who could never have lived with other saints. Not all have the same path. But all arrive at God.

--St. Jean Vianney