Macrina Quotes

#1. Feast of Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa, & his sister Macrina, Teachers, c.394 & c.379 Humility is the root, mother, nurse, foundation, and bond of all virtue.

Saint John Chrysostom

#2. I wind in and out of people's lives. Having touched them, I am blessed. Having touched me, they are blessed. Our roots are deepened. Our wings are strengthened. We have given each other grace to live more deeply.

Macrina Wiederkehr

#3. Once you understand a wound it loses its power to destroy you.

Macrina Wiederkehr

#4. The fast pace of our lives makes it difficult for us to find grace in the present moment, and when the simple gifts at our fingertips cease to nourish us, we have a tendency to crave the sensational.

Macrina Wiederkehr

#5. Nothing will change if you worry. Rather it may aggravate negative emotions within you. Don't waste your time worrying.

Maddy Malhotra

#6. O God, help me to believe the truth about myself, no matter how beautiful it is.

Macrina Wiederkehr

#7. Thousands of alienated young Muslims, most of them born and bred here but who regard themselves as an army within, are waiting for an opportunity to help to destroy the society that sustains them.

Melanie Phillips

#8. The seasons of my heart change like the seasons of the fields. There are seasons of wonder and hope, seasons of suffering and love, seasons of healing. There are seasons of dying and rising, seasons of faith.

Macrina Wiederkehr

#9. Take me away from my sense. I need to go away now, because I'm in chaos - take me down deep. Hover over me, because I need grace. I say that a lot, many times a day.

Caroline Myss

#10. You can spend your life chitchatting with someone - even a good friend - but spend even an hour moving over a rocky path, breathing in pine-scented air, and I guarantee you the chitchat will turn to something else.

Scott Jurek

#11. But if there was embellishment, it only had to do with the facts.

Louise Erdrich

#12. In the absence of a subject with which you are passionately involved, and without the excitement that drives you to grasp it and exhaust it, you may take some beautiful pictures, but not a photographic oeuvre.

Brassai

#13. Union with God is the only heaven there is, and it begins here on earth.

Macrina Wiederkehr

#14. My God is not imprisoned anywhere, not in the Bible nor the tabernacle. Real Presence is everywhere, and those with the hearts of children revel in it.

Macrina Wiederkehr

#15. Taking off your shoes is a sacred ritual. It is a hallowed moment of remembering the goodness of space and time. It is a way of celebrating the holy ground on which you stand.

Macrina Wiederkehr

#16. Candide, terrified, amazed, desperate, all bloody, all palpitating, said to himself: If this is the best of possible worlds, what then are the others? Well,

Voltaire

#17. Politics is a dirty business, but if you do not do politics, politics will be done to you.

Will Shetterly

#18. God, we are so cool. And by cool, I mean retarded.

John Green

#19. We have not been abandoned. We have, perhaps, in that leaving been given the gift of ourselves in a new, deeper, and more lasting way.

Macrina Wiederkehr

#20. Holiness comes wrapped in the ordinary. There are burning bushes all around you. Every tree is full of angels. Hidden beauty is waiting in every crumb.

Macrina Wiederkehr

#21. There are things players go through on an everyday basis in the business of football. You don't see it all with the glitz and glamour of game day.

Terrell Owens

#22. Sometimes we have to be left on our own to discover the uniqueness and strength that is ours.

Macrina Wiederkehr

#23. Boeing just took $20 billion and 10 years to improve the efficiency of their planes by 10 percent. That's pretty lame. I have a design in mind for a vertical liftoff supersonic jet that would be a really big improvement.

Elon Musk

#24. The guys who play it [soccer] are kinda dumb. Why don't they just kick the crap out of the guy in front of the net? Then they could score all they want.

Tite Kubo