"We are called to serve the common good by engaging with political and other institutions, even in our pluralistic society. We bring to that effort Christ's command to love and the grace that helps us live that love."

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Source : Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

John I. Jenkins

#Effort Quotes #Political Quotes #Grace Quotes

“Truth, and goodness, and beauty, are but different faces of the same All”
“Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love.”
“Men never sound more stupid than when they're telling you they're a very complex personality.”
“Nothing's as good as holding on to safety.”
“But the most heinous crime of the Church has been perpetrated not against churchmen but against churchgoers. With its poisonous concepts of sin and divine punishment, it's warped and brainwashed countless millions. It would be impossible to calculate the psychic damage this has inflicted on generations of children who might have grown up into healthy, happy. productive, zestful human beings but for the burden of antisexual fear and guilt ingrained in them by the Church. This alone is enough to condemn religion.”
“On a harsh expedition, there's no space for anyone who does not intend to finish.”
“The world is a severe schoolmaster, for its frowns are less dangerous than its smiles and flatteries, and it is a difficult task to keep in the path of wisdom.”
“To remember love after long sleep; to turn again to poetry after a year in the market place, or to youth after resignation to drowsy and stiffening age; to remember what once you thought life could hold, after telling over with muddied and calculating fingers what it has offered; this is music, made after long silence. The soul flexes its wings, and, clumsy as any fledgling, tries the air again”

Source : Mary Stewart (1978). “Hollow Hills”, Fawcett

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