Quotes of the Week - 2007-03-11

"When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left over I buy food and clothes!"
- Erasmus

"Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do."
- Pope John XXIII

"Religion is not as arbitrary and impersonal as some people believe."
- Peter Frick

"Life is short. Do not forget about the most important things in our life, living for other people and doing good for them."
- Marcus Aurelius

"I always wonder what's going on behind people's masks. I sometimes wonder what's going on behind my mask."
- Vlad Taltos - Steven Brust

"It is when things go wrong, when the good things do not happen, when our prayers seem to have been lost, that God is most present. We do not need the sheltering wings when things go smoothly. We are closest to God in the darkness, stumbling along blindly."
- Madeleine L'Engle