"Did a Magdalene, a Paul, a Constantine, an Augustine become mountains of ice after their conversion? Quite the contrary. We should never have had these prodigies of conversion and marvelous holiness if they had not changed the flames of human passion into volcanoes of immense love of God."

-- Frances Xavier Cabrini

#Faith Quotes #Inspiration Quotes #Passion Quotes

“All of world's eyes are trained on the Games. So winning at that stage is heroic. It is a different feeling altogether and cannot be explained in words.”
“Science advances one funeral at a time.”
“It took two," I said. "Two different people to make the Heartwood what it is. Two different experiences, grief and joy, combined. True love never has just one face, does it? It must always have two, or it isn't true love at all.”
“I think people are going to return to sanity when they see how ridiculous many of these charges are, and how the predictions are not borne out.”
“Many of those whose task it is to broker the truth of God to the people of God in the churches have now redefined the pastoral task such that theology has become an embarrassing encumbrance or a matter of which they have little knowledge; and many in the Church have now turned in upon themselves and substituted for the knowledge of God a search for the knowledge of self.”
“I love playing Chekhov. That's the hardest; that's why I love it most.”
“The man who will present Christ to others must be occupied with Christ for Himself.”

Source : Charles Henry Mackintosh (2012). “Notes on the Pentateuch - Volume 2: Exodus”, p.49, Lulu Press, Inc
“There comes a time in every man's life when he must make way for an older man.”

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