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Here are some inspiring quotations from some of our greatest teachers~

Change your thoughts and you change your world ! Norman Vincent Peale

You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.
Booker T. Washington

You are of God, little children, and have overcome them, because He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.

1 John 4:4 NKJV

Every good thought you think is contributing its share to the ultimate result of your life.
Grenville Kleiser

The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it. Albert Einstein

A vessel full of living water is empty of all else. Danny Lee

I discovered the secret of the sea in meditation upon a dewdrop. kahlil Gibran

For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
LUKE 12:34

God is nearer to us than our own spirit. Julian of Norwich

If God created the shadows, it was to bring out the light.
John XXIII

When it gets dark enough, you can see the stars. Charles A. Beard

Anyone who says that sunshine brings happiness has never danced in the rain.

Unknown

I have sometimes been wildly, desparingly, acutely miserable... but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing. Agatha Christie

The righteous will never be moved: they will be remembered forever Psalm 112:6

Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right. Issac Asimov

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. Henry David Thoreau

At the end of our life we shall all be judged by charity.
St. John of the Cross

You cannot always control what goes on outside, but you can always control what goes on inside. anonymous

The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap in consciousness, call it intuition or what you will, and the solution comes to you and you don't know how or why. Albert Einstein

The moment I realized God existed, I knew that I could not do othewise than to live for Him Alone...Faith strips the mask from the world and renders meaningless such words as anxiety, danger and fear, so the believer goes through life calmly and peacefully, with profound joy---like a child, hand and hand with his mother.

Charles De Foucauld

If we do not radiate the Light of Christ around us, the sense of the darkness that prevails in the world will increase.
Mother Teresa

The real troublemakers are anger, jealousy, impatience, and hatred. With them, problems cannot be solved. Though we may have temporary success, ultimately our hatred or anger will create futher difficulties. Anger makes for swift solutions. Yet, when we face problems with compassion, sincerity, and good motivation, our solutions may take longer, but ultimately they are better.
The Dalai Lama

God comes into our lives when we do things that make us truly human. When we help the poor, when we speak out for justice, when we get over our exaggerated sense of our own importance, when we learn to respond with child-like awe to the sun shining in the summer or to the snow falling in winter, when we get over being stuck on ourselves, we make room in our lives for God.
Rabbi H.Kushner

I still believe that one day mankind will bow before the altars of God and be crowned triumphant over war and bloodshed, and nonviolent redemptive goodwill will proclaim the rule of the land. Most of these people will never make the headlines and their names will not appear in Who's Who. Yet when years have rolled past and when the blazing light of truth is focused on this marvelous age in which we live -- men and women will know and children will be taught that we have a finer land, a better people, a more noble civilization -- because these humble children of God were willing to suffer for righteousness' sake.

Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech (Dec 1964)
Dr. Martin Luther King

It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.
Abraham Lincoln

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Helen Keller

You never find yourself until you face the truth

Pearl Bailey

Suffering, pain, sorrow, humiliation, feelings of loneliness, are nothing but the kiss of Jesus, a sign that you have come so close that He can kiss you.
Mother Teresa

For me prayer is an upward leap of the heart.
St. Terese of Lisieux

No one escapes the wilderness on the way to the promised land.

Annie Dillard

O beloved, why has not Love sufficiently overwhelmed you and engulfed you in her abyss? Alas! And why do you not touch God deeply enough in the abyss of His Nature, which is so unfathomable? Sweet love, give yourself for Loves's sake fully to God in love... Hadewijch (Thirteenth Century poet and mystic)

Each indecision brings its own delays and days are lost lamenting over lost days...What you can do or think you can do, begin it. For boldness has Magic, Power, and Genius in it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

You cannot tell what may happen to us in the strange medley of life. But we can decide what happens in us..how we can take it, what we do with it..and that is what really counts in the end.

Joseph Fort Newton

Every thing there is but lovin' leaves a rust on your old soul

Langston Hughes

One who commences prayer should imagine that for the delight of his Lord, he is starting to plant a garden in some very unfruitful soil, full of weeds. His Majesty must be asked to pull up the bad plants, and put good ones in their place. But we will suppose this is already done, when a soul has not only determined, but is resolved to make use of mental prayer. And now, by God's help, we must endeavor, like good gardeners, to make these plants grow. We should take care to water them, so they will not wither, but bring forth flowers of such sweet frangrance as may please our Lord. Then He may take pleasure in often coming into this garden, and delighting Himself with our virtues.
St. Teresa of Avila(Doctor of the Church)

So these are ours; faith, hope and love, but the greatest of these is Love.
St. Paul Corinthians 13:13

And yet I do love a kind of light, melody, fragrance, food, embracement when I love my God; for He is the light, the melody, the fragrance, the food, the embracement of my inner self - there where is a brillance that space cannot contain, a sound that time cannot carry away, a perfume that no breeze disperses, a taste undimisnished by eating, a clinging together that no saiety will sunder. This is what I love when I love my God.
St. Augustine

Owe nothing to anyone, except to love one another; for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law. The commandments, "You shall not commit adultery,: you shall not kill; you shall not steal; you shall not convet, and whatever other commandment there may be, are summed up in this one saying, (namely)" You shall love your neighbor as yourself." Love does no evil to the neighbor: hence, love is the fulfillment of the law.
St. Paul, Romans13 8:10

When you can feel the warmth of the sunshine, but cannot see it. Or feel the coolness of a gentle breeze, but cannot grasp it. When our dreams are just a fleeting thought that no longer matters. Remember to deeply reach within, to stretch your mind, to awaken the real you, as we say goodnight to self doubt and the inner blindness.
Mary

This might sound arrogant, but I told the terrorist. "You can harm my body,you can harm my mind, but you can't harm my soul. That is mine."
Terry Waite - International humanitarian envoy who became a hostage himself trying to bring other hostages to freedom in Beirut. He spent five years as a hostage, four in solitary confinement.

In times of quietness, our hearts should be like a tree,lifting their branches to heaven to draw down strength which they will need to face the storms that will surely come in life.
Salesians of Don Bosco

Look within!... The secret is inside you.
Hui-neng

Whatever hour God has blessed you with, take it with a grateful hand.
Horace

I love you, Lord, my strength, Lord, my rock, my fortress, my deliver, My God, my rock of refuge, my shield, my saving horn, my stronghold! Praised be the Lord, I exclaim!
I have been delivered from my enemies.

David's song after the Lord rescued him from the clutches of all his enemies and from the hand of Saul in Psalm 18 3:4

And Mary said,
"My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord; my spirit rejoices in God my savior. For he has looked up upon his handmaid's lowliness; behold, from now on will all ages call me blessed. The Mighty One has done great things for me, and holy is His name."
Mary, mother of Jesus in Luke 1 46:49

So Jesus said again, "Amen, amen, I say to you, I am the gate for the sheep. All who came (before me) are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them. I Am the gate. Whoever enters through me will be saved, and will come in and go out and find pasture. A thief comes only to steal and slaughter and destroy. I came so that they might have life and have it more abundantly. I Am the good shepherd. A good shepherd lays down his life for his sheep.
Jesus John 10 7:11
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Let us honor all those brave heros who gave their lives to save others, during the terrorist attack on the United States, who mirrored Christ our Lord who gave His own life for His sheep.

Let us remember all the victims and their families of September 11, in a moment of silence in prayer.

Pray for God's love to shine on the Catholic Church, bringing it to renewed strength, integrity and peace.

Pray for the end of the war in Iraq.

May God bless you with the gift of his love, faith and hope.

Please pray for peace in our world. Pray especially for peace in our own hearts, because a peaceful world depends on individual peace.