"I am not too concerned with what I am going to do. I am more interested in who I am becoming. I want to be a lover of God and people."
Live Deliberately
Breathe Deeply
Suck the Marrow out of Life
"Don't call us saints. We don't want to be dismissed that easily." Dorothy Day
"Following Jesus is simple, but not easy."
"I'm not sure we need more churches. What we really need is a church."
"Rather than being bound up by how much stuff we need to buy, we can get enslaved to how simply we must live."
"Most good things have been said far too many times and just need to be lived." Wendell Berry
"We can do no great things, just small things with great love. It is not how much you do, but how much love you put into doing it." Mother Theresa
"In my suburban comfort, I increasingly felt disturbed by God. I became very uncomfortable in the comfortable suburbs. The beautiful thing was my discomfort arose not from a cynical judgmentalism, but from a longing for something more. I did not want to settle for comfort. I did not want to settle for a life detached from the groaning of the slums or the beauty of playing in open fire hydrants and having block parties in the inner city."
"If we are crazy, then it is because we refuse to be crazy in the same way the world has gone crazy." Peter Maurin
"All around you, people will be tiptoeing through life, just to arrive at death safely. But dear children, do not tiptoe. Run, hop, skip or dance, just don't tiptoe."
