Sinners make the best saints.
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Never wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it.
George Bernard Shaw
I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.
Fred Allen
The Holy Spirit of discipline flees deceit and withdraws from senseless counsels.
Wisdom 1:5
Piety is one of the popular virtues, whereas soap and Socialism are two hobbies of the upper middle class.
G.K. Chesterton
Millions long for immortality who don’t know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz
Let us be thankful to Adam our benefactor. He cut us out of the ‘blessing’ of idleness and won for us the ‘curse’ of labor.
Mark Twain
Correlation does not imply causation.
Any good scientist
The law of gravity can take care of itself, the law that you go on green and stop on red needs all the help it can get.
Mark Halpern
Malice is ever complex and paranoid. Conscious of its own designs, it suspects only malice in others.
CR
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
C.S. Lewis
I find absolutely no grounds for optimism, and I have every reason for hope.
Fr. Paul Mankowski (quoting Wilfrid Sheed)
There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.
G.K. Chesterton
Worrying doesn’t empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.
Corrie Ten Boom
Fairy tales do not give a child his first idea of bogy. What fairy tales give the child is his first clear idea of the possible defeat of the bogy. The baby has known the dragon intimately ever since he had an imagination. What the fairy tale provides for him is a St. George to kill the dragon.
G.K. Chesterton
Lord, in the midst of worry and distress, anxiety, despair and depression, help us let go and send us peace of heart.
Hinder not the little children to come unto Me.
Love does not brood over injury.
1 Corinthians 13:5
Many have fallen by the edge of the sword, but not as many as have fallen by the tongue.
Sirach 28:18
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner.
God grant me the serenity
To accept the things I cannot change;
Courage to change the things I can;
And wisdom to know the difference.
Living one day at a time;
Enjoying one moment at a time;
Accepting hardships as the pathway to peace;
Taking, as He did, this sinful world
As it is, not as I would have it;
Trusting that He will make all things right
If I surrender to His Will;
So that I may be reasonably happy in this life
And supremely happy with Him
Forever and ever in the next.
Amen.
Lord, if I’m in a state of grace, keep me there; if I’m not, put me there.
St. Joan of Arc
You have no excuse, whoever you may be, when you pass judgment on others.
Rom 2:1
If you are suffering from a bad man’s injustice, forgive him—lest there be two bad men.
St. Augustine
Occupy your minds with good thoughts, or the enemy will fill them with bad ones. Unoccupied, they cannot be.
St. Thomas More
St. Joseph, help me to look beyond the faults of others to find the kernel of goodness in them.
I pray to God for good to come to those who have hurt and wronged me and I ask for the grace to forgive them, and I pray for good to come to those who I have hurt and wronged and I ask for the grace to be forgiven. Our Father…
Loving Father, remind me to give other people second chances and opportunities to grow.
St. Fiacre and St. Francis of Rome, help us drive safely and have good and right judgement, patience, wisdom, mercy and charity and keep us and our passengers safe while driving.
The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest.
St. Thomas More
Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon. Where there is doubt, faith. Where there is despair, hope. Where there is darkness, light. Where there is sadness, joy. O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console, to be understood as to understand, to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive, in pardoning that we are pardoned, in dying that we are born to eternal life. Amen!
Prayer of St. Francis
A Prayer for Peace of Mind
Lord, fortify me with the grace of Your Holy Spirit and give Your peace to my soul that I may be free from all needless anxiety and worry. Help me to desire always that which is pleasing and acceptable to You so that Your will may be my will. Amen.
St. Frances Xavier Cabrini