Michael Pecha > Michael's Quotes

“What seems to me white, I will believe black if the hierarchical Church so defines.”
― St. Ignatius of Loyola

“Daughter, why are you giving in to thoughts of fear?... Do not fear, I will not leave you alone. Do whatever you can in this matter, I will accomplish everything that is lacking in you. You know what is within your power to do, do that.”
― Faustina Kowalska

“Have you strayed from the path leading to heaven? Then call on Mary, for her name means "Star of the Sea, the North Star which guides the ships of our souls during the voyage of this life," and she will guide you to the harbor of eternal salvation.”
― St Louis De Monfort, The Secret Of The Rosary

“The closer men came to perfecting for themselves a paradise, the more impatient they became with it, and with themselves as well. They made a garden of pleasure, and became progressively more miserable with it as it grew in richness and power and beauty; for then, perhaps, it was easier to see something was missing in the garden, some tree or shrub that would not grow. When the world was in darkness and wretchedness, it could believe in perfection and yearn for it. But when the world became bright with reason and riches, it began to sense the narrowness of the needle's eye, and that rankled for a world no longer willing to believe or yearn.”
― Walter M. Miller Jr., A Canticle for Leibowitz

“Vocation is the place where our deep gladness meets the world's deep need.”
― Frederick Buechner

“Fight one more round. When your feet are so tired that you have to shuffle back to the centre of the ring, fight one more round. When your arms are so tired that you can hardly lift your hands to come on guard, fight one more round. When your nose is bleeding and your eyes are black and you are so tired you wish your opponent would crack you one on the jaw and put you to sleep, fight one more round – remembering that the man who always fights one more round is never whipped.”
― James Corbett

“It never was any better, it never will be any better. It will only be richer or poorer, sadder but not wiser, until the very last day.”
― Walter M. Miller Jr., A Canticle for Leibowitz

“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune