Quotes about Life

When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.

the fountain of content must spring up in the mind: and that he who has so little knowledge of human nature, as to seek happiness by changing any thing but his own dispositions, will waste his life in fruitless efforts, and multiply the griefs which he purposes to remove .

The Catholic life—the great Christian tradition—is a tremendous inheritance from two millennia of saints in many lands and circumstances.

St. Augustine once defined peace as "tranquility in order "The plan of life is what finally imposed a spiritual order on my ordinary days. And that order was the necessary precondition of peace.

and so he could show me how much my life was controlled by fear.

To do so is to begin a life like God's. It is to begin to imitate the "holiness" of God; the Hebrew word for holiness means, quite literally, "set apart.

15And he said to them, Take heed, and beware of all covetousness; for a man's life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.

The only thing that we ever do in this world that is real participation in the life we hope to live forever is to worship with Christ at the Liturgy.

This promise of resurrection is our hope. It is that on which we stake our life. It is what enables us, as Christians, to face death with courage and joy.

If you want to mark your covenant with God, to seal your covenant with God, to renew your covenant with God, you have to eat the Lamb—the paschal lamb Who is our unleavened bread. It begins to sound familiar. "Unless you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink His blood, you have no life in you" (Jn 6: 54).

To live a good life is not to live free of troubles, but to live free of needless worry.

THERE'S A YIDDISH PROVERB YOU'LL FIND quoted in many books on parenting: "Little children disturb your sleep; big children your life.