“So many lies. Are taking hold. It’s not your fault. There’s many scars. ~ "On Your Side"”

“How many beginnings before you see the lies in your excitement?”

“Many of the faults you see in others, dear reader,
are your own nature reflected in them.”

“Surely, no one hoped for so many things.
Hold the flowers close to your heart;
they may someday bloom.”

“In many problems there is always a side in your favor, you just have to identify it.”

“Be proud of every scar on your heart, each one holds a lifetime’s worth of lessons.”

“But you only get so many do-overs in this life, so many chances to, if not change your past, alter your future.”

“We are no nearer heaven on the top of Mount Cenis than at the bottom of the sea; take the distance with your astrolabe. They debase God even to the carnal knowledge of women, to so many times, and so many generations.”

“The world needs this renewal! In so many of our societies, side by side with material prosperity, a spiritual desert is spreading interior emptiness, unnamed fears, a quiet sense of despair. How many of our contemporaries have built broken and empty cisterns in a desperate search for meaning - the ultimate meaning that only love can give?…. The Church also needs this renewal! She needs your faith, your idealism and your generosity, so that she can always be young in the Spirit!”

“Among so many conflicting ideas and so many different perspectives, the honest man is confused and distressed and the skeptic becomes wicked … Since one must take sides, one might as well choose the side that is victorious, the side which devastates, loots, and burns. Considering the alternative, it is better to eat than to be eaten.”