Friar Stebin John Capuchin > Friar Stebin's Quotes

“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“The union between Paul’s sufferings and Christ’s sufferings results in the manifestation of Christ’s life in the person of Paul.”
― Taylor R. Marshall, The Catholic Perspective on Paul

“I believe the best way to defend life is to celebrate life. I believe the best way to celebrate life is to live our own lives to the fullest—to embrace life with arms wide open, to lay our lives enthusiastically at the service of humanity, to love deeply the people who cross our paths, and above all, to embrace our God. Life should never be wasted—not one moment—because life is precious.”
― Matthew Kelly, Rediscover Catholicism: A Spiritual Guide to Living with Passion & Purpose

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
― Dr. Seuss

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
― Albert Camus

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
― Elbert Hubbard

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“We become what we celebrate. It is true not only of the life of a person but also of the life of a family. It is true of the life of a nation, and it is true of the life of the Church.”
― Matthew Kelly, Rediscover Catholicism: A Spiritual Guide to Living with Passion & Purpose

“The surest signs of holiness are an insatiable desire to become all God created us to be, an unwavering commitment to the will of God, and an unquenchable concern for unholy people.”
― Matthew Kelly, Rediscover Catholicism: A Spiritual Guide to Living with Passion & Purpose

“Discipline is the faithful friend who will introduce you to your true self. Discipline is the worthy protector who will defend you from your lesser self. And discipline is the extraordinary mentor who will challenge you to become the-best-version-of-yourself and all God created you to be.”
― Matthew Kelly, Rediscover Catholicism: A Spiritual Guide to Living with Passion & Purpose

“Joan of Arc wrote, “I know this now. Every man gives his life for what he believes. Every woman gives her life for what she believes. Sometimes people believe in little or nothing, and yet they give their lives to that little or nothing. One life is all we have, and we live it as we believe in living it and then it’s gone. But to surrender what you are and to live without belief is more terrible than dying—even more terrible than dying young.”
― Matthew Kelly, Rediscover Catholicism: A Spiritual Guide to Living with Passion & Purpose

“The Church has a vision of wholeness and holiness for the human person, and everything the Church does should help her members to become more perfectly who God created them to be.”
― Matthew Kelly, Rediscover Catholicism: A Spiritual Guide to Living with Passion & Purpose

“The heart is a secret with its Maker; no one on earth can hope to get at it or to touch it.”
― John Henry Newman, Loss and Gain The Story of a Convert

“Boys do not fully know what is good and what is evil; they do wrong things at first almost innocently. Novelty hides vice from them; there is no one to warn them or give them rules; and they become slaves of sin, while they are learning what sin is.”
― John Henry Newman, Loss and Gain The Story of a Convert

“The minds of young people are pliable and elastic, and easily accommodate themselves to any one they fall in with.”
― John Henry Newman, Loss and Gain The Story of a Convert

“Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein

“Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear!”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“The Liturgy itself is prayer; the confession of faith finds its proper place in the celebration of worship.”
― The Catholic Church, Catechism of the Catholic Church: Complete and Updated

“God, infinitely perfect and blessed in himself, in a plan of sheer goodness freely created man to make him share in his own blessed life.”
― The Catholic Church, Catechism of the Catholic Church

“Faith is man’s response to God, who reveals himself and gives himself to man, at the same time bringing man a superabundant light as he searches for the ultimate meaning of his life.”
― The Catholic Church, Catechism of the Catholic Church

“The desire for God is written in the human heart, because man is created by God and for God; and God never ceases to draw man to himself.”
― The Catholic Church, Catechism of the Catholic Church: Complete and Updated

“Religion is merely the law which binds man to his Creator: in purity it has but these elements--God, the Soul, and their Mutual Recognition; out of which, when put in practise, spring Worship, Love, and Reward”
― Lew Wallace, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ