Quotes about Life

Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.

I never truly believed that human business was some serious thing.

This is the only chance you will ever have on earth with this exciting adventure called life. So why not plan it, and try to live it as richly, as happily as possible?

Dying without actually fully living, without waking up to our lives while we have the chance, is an ongoing and significant risk.

To lead a life that goes beyond pettiness and prejudice and always wanting to make sure that everything turns out on our own terms, to lead a more passionate, full, and delightful life than that, we must realize we can endure a lot of pain and pleasure for the sake of finding out who we are and what this world is.

Rest is the ability to totally trust God without living under the stress of the cares of life.

We enter this world with birth pains and we leave with similar pains of death.

We don't know what inscriptions Washington's nephew found on the tombs of their early Virginian ancestors. But we do know what Washington's ancestors ultimately put on his Mount Vernon tomb. Should you visit Washington's tomb at Mount Vernon, you will read "I am the resurrection and the Life." (John 11:25), the very first words of the funeral service in the Book of Common Prayer.

Sacraments are like hoses. They are the channels of the living water of God's grace. Our faith is like opening the faucet. We can open it a lot, a little, or not at all.

All life is an emergency.

Léon Bloy wrote: 'Life holds only one tragedy: not to have been a saint

St. Thomas would have agreed with Leon Bloy, who often wrote that in the end there is only one tragedy in life: not to have been a saint.