[ECUMENICAL] Favorite Quotations

StudiObrien ^ | June, 2010 | Michael D. O'Brien

[trisham]

Well done!

[mlizzy]

Thanks for the great quotes. Inspiring ...

[Desdemona]

One of My favorites:

"Honey, if it's happening, it's God's will." ~ Mother Angelica

[mlizzy]

"Honey, if it's happening, it's God's will." ~ Mother Angelica

*smiles*

[kalee]

We do not want merely to see beauty, though, God knows, even that is bounty enough. We want something else which can hardly be put into words-to be united with the beauty we see, to pass into it, to receive it into ourselves, to bathe in it... CS Lewis

[johngrace]

HOW TRUE!

[johngrace]

Prayer reveals to souls the vanity of earthly goods and pleasures. It fills them with light, strength and consolation; and gives them a foretaste of the calm bliss of our heavenly home. -- St. Rose of Viterbo

We must pray without tiring, for the salvation of mankind does not depend on material success; nor on sciences that cloud the intellect. Neither does it depend on arms and human industries, but on Jesus alone. -- St. Frances Xavier Cabrini

[johngrace]

“You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you odd.” (Flannery O’Connor was so right.)

[Mrs. Don-o]

Long applause for Flanner O'Connor, and for Lewis and Chesterton. But --- lest this turn into an O'Connor-Lewis-ChestertonFest (always a danger because they're so eye-poppingly good)--- I have to put in some of my other favorites.

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"A comprehended god is no god."

"Slander is worse than cannibalism."

"The floor of hell is paved with the skulls of bishops."

Those are all from St. John Chrysostom, Bishop

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Oh, OK. I can't resist s couple more from Flannery O'Connor. From "A Good Man in Hard to Find"

"She would of been a good woman," The Misfit said, "if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life."

(This is one of my husband's favorites, too).

On the Holy Eucharist:

"If it's just a symbol, to hell with it."

[mlizzy]

"She would of been a good woman," The Misfit said, "if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life."

*Roaring* One of my favorites too, Mrs. Don-o! I may have given you this link before (my apologies if so), but here is a paper Tom wrote on Flannery: "The Fight to be “Flannery”: A Good (Catholic) Woman (Writer) is Hard to Find."

[Mrs. Don-o]

“She didn't think she could be a saint, but maybe a martyr if they killed her quick.”

Flannery O'Connor

[mlizzy]

“She didn't think she could be a saint, but maybe a martyr if they killed her quick.” --Flannery O'Connor

ROFL

[Salvation]

"I've noticed that everybody that is for abortion

has already been born."

~Ronald Reagan, quoted in New York Times, 22 September 1980