"'The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.' -RWE

To which Heidi adds: Except that Joseph Smith, Jr. said "Happiness is the object and design of our existence." But to tie in the two quotes, we can think of King Benjamin's words, "When ye are in the service of your fellow beings, ye are only in the service of your God." And service to others--therefore to Heavenly Father--would bring some of the greatest happiness in the world."
— Various Authors

""Even if you're not the most "beautiful" woman in the world, you're the most beautiful woman in the world" --Steven Orlowski

"The human heart is exquisitely fragile. Our judgments need to be gentle, our understanding deep, and our forgiveness wide." --Ron Rolheiser

"Even if the Pope were Satan incarnate, we ought not to raise up our heads against him, but calmly lie down to rest on his bosom. He who rebels against our Father is condemned to death, for that which we do to him we do to Christ: we honor Christ if we honor the Pope; we dishonor Christ if we dishonor the Pope." --Saint Catherine of Siena.

“Wherever the bishop appears, let the people be there; just as wherever Jesus Christ is, there is the Catholic Church”-(Ignatius of Antioch, Letter to the Smyrneans 8:2 [A.D. 110])

"I should not believe the Gospel except as moved by the authority of the Catholic Church."-Saint Augustine (354-430), Against the Letter of Mani, 5,6, 397 A.D.

"We are compelled to concede to the Papists that they have the Word of GOD, that we received it from them, and that without them, we should have no knowledge of it at all."-Martin Luther, commentary on St. John.

For those who believe, no explanation is necessary.
For those who do not believe, no explanation is possible.

"Catholicism is by far the most elegant worship ... with incense, pictures, statues, altars, shrines, relics, and the real presence, confession, absolution - there is something sensible to grasp at. Besides, it leaves no possibility of doubt; for those who swallow their Deity, really and truly, in transubstantiation, can hardly find any thing else otherwise than ease of digestion."-Lord Byron, British poet (1788-1824)

“If you're going to do a thing, you should do it thoroughly. If you're going to be a Christian, you may as well be a Catholic.” -Muriel Sparks

"Always remain close to the Catholic Church, because it alone can give you true peace, since it alone possesses Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament, the true Prince of Peace."-Saint Padre Pio

"The Catholic Church understands its opponents, her opponents do not understand the Catholic Church." -Hilaire Belloc

"When the world goes wrong, it proves that the Church is right."-G.K. Chesterton

“There are not one hundred people in the United States who hate The Catholic Church, but there are millions who hate what they wrongly perceive to be the Catholic Church to be.”-Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen

"Don't be upset if some of your dreams don't come true, be thankful some of your nightmares didn't come true either."-Father Andrew Apostoli

"Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time."-Jorge Luis Borges

"Were I to die at this moment, the remembrance of the time I have lost should be one of my greatest torments."--St. Alphonsus de Liguori

"This food we call the Eucharist, of which no one is allowed to partake except one who believes that the things we teach are true, and has received the washing for forgiveness of sins and for rebirth, and who lives as Christ handed down to us. For we do not receive these things as common bread or common drink; but as Jesus Christ our Savior being incarnate by God's Word took flesh and blood for our salvation, so also we have been taught that the food consecrated by the Word of prayer which comes from him, from which our flesh and blood are nourished by transformation, is the flesh and blood of that incarnate Jesus." --St. Justing Martyr

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— Various Authors

""Neither be idle in the means, nor make an idol of the means."--William Secker

"Love ceases to be a demon only when he ceases to be a god."--M. Denis de Rougemont (Qtd. by C. S. Lewis)

"I love to lose myself in other men's minds. When I am not walking, I am reading."--Charles Lamb

"Seeing firsthand the power of books in my own life encourages me to read even more."--Tony Reinke

"But there is one thing that is infinitely more absurd and unpractical than burning a man for his philosophy. This is the habit of saying that his philosophy does not matter...."--G. K. Chesterton


"O senseless man who cannot make a worm, and yet makes gods by dozens."--Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (Qtd. by Monergism Books)

"Oh teach the mind t' aetherial heights to rise,
And view familiar, in its native skies,
Thy source of good; thy splendor to descry,
And on thy self, undazled, fix her eye.
Oh quicken this dull mass of mortal clay;
Shine through the soul, and drive its clouds away!
For thou art Light. In thee the righteous find
Calm rest, and soft serenity of mind;
Thee they regard alone; to thee they tend;
At once our great original and end,
At once our means, our end, our guide, our way,
Our utmost bound, and our eternal stay!"
--Anicius Boethius, "O Qui Perpetua Mundum Ratione Gubernas""
— Various Authors