"For each one of us, there is only one thing necessary: to fulfill our own destiny, according to God's will, to be what God wants us to be."

-- Thomas Merton

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“Let us daily strive to copy our Saviour's humility.”
“If you're like me, you probably take your cell phone with you everywhere you go. That means that everywhere you go, you can be tracked and located through that cell phone. It's a feature of cell phones that's not often mentioned, but that is being used by law enforcement to catch criminals.”

Source : "Police Use Stingray Tool To Intercept Cellphone Signals". "All Things Considered" with Audie Cornish, www.npr.org. June 22, 2015.
“Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.”
“The harm done by ordinary criminals, murderers, gangsters, and thieves is negligible in comparison with the agony inflicted upon human beings by the professional do-gooders, who attempt to set themselves up as gods on earth and who would ruthlessly force their views on all others - with the abiding assurance that the end justifies the means.”

Source : Henry Grady Weaver (2016). “The Mainspring of Human Progress [Revised Edition]”, p.38, Pickle Partners Publishing
“God established the family as the foundation of civilization.”
“There's nothing of any importance in life-except how well you do your work.”
“The only possible regret I have is the feeling that I will die without having played enough tennis.”

Source : Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).
“Why do you love the woman you're in love with? Because she is. And that, after all, is God's own definition of Himself; I am that I am. The girl is who she is. Some of her isness spills over and impregnates the entire universe. Objects and events cease to be mere representations of classes and become their own uniqueness; cease to be illustrations of verbal abstractions and become fully concrete. Then you stop being in love, and the universe collapses, with an almost audible squeak of derision, into its normal insignificance.”

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