“I hope that many young men and women, inspired by sincere, apostolic zeal, will consecrate their own lives to Christ and the Church as priests and religious, or as lay people who are also ready to leave their own countries to rush to those places where workers in Christ’s vineyard are scarce.” – Pope Francis
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“If the whole human race lay in one grave, the epitaph on its headstone might well be: ‘It seemed a good idea at the time.’ ” – Dame Rebecca West
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“If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
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“The beginnings of all things are small” – Cicero
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“In youth we feel richer for every new illusion; in maturer years, for every one we lose.” – Anne Sophie Swetchine
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“I know what the cure is: it is to give up, to relinquish, to surrender, so that our little hearts may beat in unison with the great heart of the world.” – Henry Miller
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‘We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
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“We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.” – Chief Seattle
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“In New England they once thought blackbirds useless, and mischievous to the corn. They made efforts to destroy them. The consequence was, the blackbirds were diminished; but a kind of worm, which devoured their grass, and which the blackbirds used to feed on, increased prodigiously; then, finding their loss in grass much greater than their saving in corn, they wished […]
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“As the bomb fell over Hiroshima and exploded, we saw an entire city disappear. I wrote in my log the words “My God, what have we done?”.” – Captain Robert Lewis
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