Consecrated Life Quotes

Hard-earned achievement brings a sense of self-worth. Work builds and refines character, creates beauty, and is the instrument of our service to one another and to God. A consecrated life is filled with work, sometimes repetitive, sometimes menial, sometimes unappreciated but always work that improves, orders, sustains, lifts, ministers, aspires. ~ D. Todd Christofferson

When our whole life is one faith, hope, love, prayer and silence, a consecrated life always bound up in the Eucharist, then the 'urge' towards God springs ... ~ Pope John Paul II

Even the smallest act of discipleship or the tiniest ember of belief can become a blazing bonfire of a consecrated life. ~ Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Consecrated life means going to the very root of the love of Jesus Christ with an undivided heart and putting nothing ahead of this love. ~ Pope Benedict XVI

With patience and persistence, even the smallest act of discipleship or the tiniest ember of belief can become a blazing bonfire of a consecrated life. In fact, that's how most bonfires begin - as a simple spark. ~ Dieter F. Uchtdorf

They (the consecrated) are men and woman who can awaken the world. Consecrated life is prophecy. God asks us to fly the nest and to be sent to the frontiers of the world, avoiding the temptation to 'domesticate' them. This is the most concrete way of imitating the Lord. ~ Pope Francis

Living with consequence is more difficult than dying because of it. ~ Greg Gathy

Composing is my life blood. ~ Morton Gould

To live a life of gratitude is to open our eyes to the countless ways in which we are supported by the world around us. ~ Gregg Krech

They snatched the girl off her tire swing in the backyard and dragged her into the woods; her body made a shallow track in the snow, from her world to mine. I saw it happen. I didn't stop it.
It had been the longest, coldest winter of my life. Day after day under a pale, worthless sun. And the hunger- hunger that burned and gnawed, an insatiable master. ~ Maggie Stiefvater

It was like this blackness that crept into the corners of my life until everything was grey and dirty. My insides felt burnt out, like if you cut me open, all you would find would be smoke. No heart. No bones. There was nothing left, just the anger. It followed me everywhere. It sat on my bed and watched me sleep and when I had to eat, it looked at me across the table. ~ Tanya Byrne

The mountains are so beautiful they make me ache inside because the moment I look away I know I shall need to see them again. And I cannot spend the rest of my life standing on the spot starting at shifting sunlight and mist and shadows across the sea. ~ Anne Perry

One particular aspect of Siddhartha's revelation of the outside world has always struck me. Quite possibly he lived his first thirty years without any knowledge of number. How must he have felt, then, to see crowds of people mingling in the streets? Before that day he would not have believed that so many people existed in all the world. And what wonder it must have been to discover flocks of birds, and piles of stones, leaves on trees and blades of grass! To suddenly realise that, his whole life long, he had been kept at arm's length from multiplicity. ~ Daniel Tammet

Moderation is essential in all things, madam, but never in my life have I failed to beat a teetotaller. ~ Harry Vardon

Many people are trying to remove religion from public life. Under the banner of pluralism, cultural and political leaders are seeking to push all talk about God out of the public arena. ~ Charles Colson

When you hoard knowledge, you deprive yourself of blessings and growth. ~ Kemi Sogunle

There is a Japanese word for things made more beautiful by use, that bear the evidence of their own making, or the individuating marks of time's passage: a kind of beauty not immune to time but embedded in it. ~ Mark Doty

Praise and worship is not about how talented you are or what a wonderful and beautiful voice you have. It's all about denying yourself, let God to be God in your life and praise Him with all your heart and soul. ~ Euginia Herlihy

From beginning to end Wilde performed his life and continued to do so even after fame had taken the plot out of his own hands. ~ W. H. Auden

You learn to run by running. ~ Sheeja Jose

In high school, I played a lot of Dungeons and Dragons. (You may not have guessed this botanist/mechanical engineer was a bit of a nerd in high school, but indeed I was.) In the game I played a cleric. One of the magic spells I could cast was "Create Water." I always thought it was a really stupid spell, and I never used it. Boy, what I wouldn't give to be able to do that in real life right now. ~ Andy Weir

What I understand that They - most everyone, really - don't, is that suicide isn't an act of selfishness. Sometimes the hurt/pain/shame/loss is so much, so constant, and with no guarantee that it'll ever dissolve, sometimes the cost/benefit analysis of life/death truly feels like it'll only work out in favour of death. ~ Michelle Hodkin

In my normal life, I do not speak with an accent. It's harder for people to realize my hearing loss in everyday life. ~ Katie Leclerc

None would remember you for how many years you lived and what you did to your life. Instead, they will remember you for how the realization of your idea contributed to humanity and made a difference to the lives of others. ~ Prem Jagyasi

I have never been So insulted in all my life I could swallow the seas To wash down all this pride First you run like a fool Just to be at my side And now you run like a fool But you just run to hide. ~ Fiona Apple

Once you put human life in human hands, you have started on a slippery slope that knows no boundaries. ~ Leon Kass

I've waited my whole life to sleep with you, Ellie Watt. I can't just pick you up from Safeway. ~ Karina Halle

If you're going to do something, strive to do it better than anyone else. Do it all the way. If you're going to half-ass it, why bother? ~ Ashly Lorenzana

I live quite an unsettled life. ~ Joely Richardson

Some people come in our life as blessings. Some come in your life as lessons. ~ Mother Teresa

Life can be how you choose or are governed by fate. ~ Steven Redhead

We call metaphysics the Science of Life, because to know pure metaphysics is to renew the life and make death and accident impossible. ~ Emma Curtis Hopkins

If life is so critical, if Anne Frank could die, if my friend could die, children were as vulnerable as adults, and that gave me a secret purpose to my work, to make them live. Because I wanted to live. I wanted to grow up. ~ Maurice Sendak

Dreams larger
than ourselves we killed, not wanting
our smallness measured against them."
(poem: Having Taken the Necessary Precautions) ~ Brian Patten

He made his life a lie so he might never have to know anyone. ~ Elliott Smith

God judges men from the inside out; men judge men from the outside in. Perhaps to God, an extreme mental patient is doing quite well in going a month without murder, for he fought his chemical imbalance and succeeded; oppositely, perhaps the healthy, able and stable man who has never murdered in his life yet went a lifetime consciously, willingly never loving anyone but himself may then be subject to harsher judgment than the extreme mental patient. It might be so that God will stand for the weak and question the strong. ~ Criss Jami

You have to really believe that you can move mountains. ~ Godwin Elendu Ph.D

And there was somewhere inside me the thought: By Jove! this is the deuce of an adventure - something you read about; and it is my first voyage as second mate - and I am only twenty - and here I am lasting it out as well as any of these men, and keeping my chaps up to the mark. I was pleased. I would not have given up the experience for worlds. I had moments of exultation. Whenever the old dismantled craft pitched heavily with her counter high in the air, she seemed to me to throw up, like an appeal, like a defiance, like a cry to the clouds without mercy, the words written on her stern: Judea, London. Do or Die. O youth! The strength of it, the faith of it, the imagination of it! To me she was not an old rattle-trap carting around the world a lot of coal for a freight - to me she was the endeavor, the test, the trial of life. I think of her with pleasure, with affection, with regret - as you would think of someone dead you have loved. I shall never forget her. ~ Joseph Conrad

There's a theory that says that life is based on a competition and the struggle and the fight for survival, and it's interesting because when you look at the fractal character of evolution, it's totally different. It's based on cooperation among the elements in the geometry and not competition. ~ Bruce Lipton

He tried to get drunk, "to forget about life for awhile," as that old
Billy Joel song once said, but the scotch couldn't anesthetize his pain
and provide a retreat from the reality of his latest failures. ~ Keith Steinbaum

The best indicator of a sociopath serial bully is not a clinical diagnosis but the trail of devastation and destruction of lives and livelihoods surrounding this individual throughout their life. ~ Tim Field

Now you stride alone through the Paris crowds
Busses in bellowing herds roll by
Anguish clutches your throat
As if you would never again be loved
In the old days you would have turned monk
With shame you catch yourself praying
And jeer your laughter crackles like hellfire
Its sparks gild the depths of your life
Which like a painting in a dark museum
You approach sometimes to peer at closely ~ Guillame Apollinaire

If I'm going to spend a lifetime writing my story, I want it to mean something. ~ Mari Serebrov

How gloomy would be these mansions of the dead to him who did not know that he shall never die; that what now acts shall continue its agency, and what now thinks shall think on for ever. Those that lie here stretched before us, the wise and the powerful of ancient times, warn us to remember the shortness of our present state; they were, perhaps, snatched away while they were busy, like us, in the choice of life. ~ Samuel Johnson

You know you're in a tough place in your life when you decide now's a good time to start Moby Dick. ~ Ben Monopoli

Laughter and happiness is what life should be about, that's your remedy for everything. ~ Fauja Singh