"O Trinity, eternal Trinity! Fire, abyss of love... Was it necessary that you should give Even the Holy Trinity as food for souls?... You gave us not only your Word Through the Redemption and in the Eucharist, But you also gave yourself In the fullness of love for your creature."

-- St. Catherine of Siena

#Fire Quotes #Giving Quotes #Soul Quotes

“Who wants to be a millionaire? And go to ev'ry swell affair?”
“The greatest gift you can give (yourself or anyone else) is just being present”
“Sometimes the darkness lives inside you, and sometimes it wins.”
“I think what happens in a religious life is that we have those experiences of affirmation and that one starts to live a Christian life or a Jewish life or a Muslim life or a Buddhist life, by affirming that affirmation each day. Each day you say 'Yes' to that Yes. So the life of being a Christian for example, is always a life of double affirmation, that you each day say 'Yes' to those counter-experiences of saying 'Yes', even when you're not experiencing them at that time, you're remaining loyal to that experience.”
“I went to America on holiday when I was 17 and, before I knew it, I'd been signed up by an agency and had these obligations I didn't understand, but which I couldn't say no to. This industry chose me. But I did choose to make it fulfilling.”
“Sometimes you see these people who are just soâ€”Godâ€”so affected by all of it, where ambition has taken precedence over happiness. But when I meet people who really embody this serenity of knowing that they have had an amazing lifeâ€”James Taylor, Kris Kristofferson, and Ethel Kennedy... They just seem to be effervescent.”
“I have never lost a total passion for my work.”
“For me photography has been a profession, an avocation. Now it has become a way of life.”

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