"'Hail, you who are highly favored, the Lord is with you' (Lk. 1:28)! Thus does the holy Church invoke the most holy Virgin, the Mother of God. But the Lord is also with every pious soul that believes in Him. The Lord's abiding with the Virgin Mary before she conceived the Savior is not a particularity proper to the most pure Virgin alone. The Lord is with every believing soul: 'The Lord is with you.' These words may be said to everyone who keeps the Lord's commandments."

-- John of Kronstadt

#Christian Quotes #Mother Quotes #Believe Quotes

“Ministry means the ongoing attempt to put one's own search for God, with all the moments of pain and joy, despair and hope, at the disposal of those who want to join this search but do not know how.”
“To be simple is not always as easy as it seems.”

Source : "Die Kunst Ferdinand Hodlers". Book by Ewald: Bender, 1923.
“Only when someone refuses to do certain things will he be capable of doing great things.”
“There is an established tradition of actors directing films that have a particular, personal meaning for them - Warren Beatty, Clint Eastwood, Kevin Costner, and most recently George Clooney to name a few. Remarkably, their films share an unusually high percentage of being very good.”
“I always begin at the left with the opening word of the sentence and read toward the right and I recommend this method.”
“It is not true that were the Soviet Union to disappear the remaining states could easily live in peace.”

Source : Kenneth N. Waltz (2013). “Man, the State, and War: A Theoretical Analysis”, p.230, Columbia University Press
“We all have to do things in this life that we don't like.”
“Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being.”

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