Youth Ministry @ SMDY

"Be communicators of hope and workers for peace in a world that is always searching for believable witnesses and authentic prophets." Pope John Paul II

"You will be the world's leaders in the century to come.  When you return to your homes, I pray that you will do so with a renewed sense of hope." Archbishop Francis Stafford

"Discover here that God has confidence in humanity, that God has faith in you, that God will never give up on anyone." Pope John Paul II, Paris Homily 1997

"The Lord will guide you always, he will satisfy your needs in a sun-scorched land.  You will be like spring whose waters never fail." Isaiah 58:11

"Be not afraid to take up your cross.  For the hope of the church springs eternal in the heart's of the youth." Pope John Paul II

"You can ask a question and look stupid, or not ask a question and be stupid."- unknown

"Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try." Yoda

"I mused for a few moments on the question of which was worse, to lead a life so boring that you are easily enchanted or a life so full of stimulus that you are easily bored." Bill Bryson

"Look into your life today. Where do you recognize the sacred? How is the goodness and beauty of God reflected in your own life as well as in the world around you?" Joyce Rupp

"It’s the action, not the fruit of the action that’s important. You have to do the right thing. It may not be in your power, may not be in your time, that there’ll be any fruit. But that does not mean you stop doing the right thing. You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no results." Ghandi

"If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, "thank you," that would suffice." Meister Eckhart

"All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen."  Ralph Waldo Emerson

                                             "It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved in our own home. Bring love into your home for this is where our love for each other must start."
- Mother Theresa

"Even as the cell is the unit of the organic body, so the family is the unit of society."
- Ruth Nanda Anshen

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"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong." (Ghandi)

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"How quick come the reasons for approving what we like." Jane Austen

"Always be prepared to make a defense to anyone who calls you to account for the hope that is in you." (1 Peter 3:15)   

"One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man." Elbert Hubbard

"Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo." - H.G. Wells

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"Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think."  Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in life has a purpose.  There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from." Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

"Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember' involve me and I'll understand" Chinese Proverb

"Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers" Lord Alfred Tennyson

"The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you." B. B. King

"You'll come to learn a great deal if you study the Insignificant in depth."Odysseus Elytis

"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." Aristotle

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Love is perfect kindness - J. Campbell

"Love is like quick-silver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away. "  Dorothy Parker

"Love takes up where knowledge leaves off." Thomas Aquinas

"We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it" William Osler

"Not one shred of evidence supports the notion that life is serious. UnknownLife's most urgent question is: what are you doing for others?" Martin Luther King

"I mused for a few moments on the question of which was worse, to lead a life so boring that you are easily enchanted or a life so full of stimulus that you are easily bored."  Bill Bryson

"I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own." Margaret Atwood

"We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give."- Winston Churchill

There are hundreds of languages in the world, but a smile speaks them all."- Anonymous

"There is no pay cheque that can equal the feeling of contentment that comes from being the person you are meant to be." Oprah Winfrey

"If life is to be enjoyed...then later isn't really anoption." Julie Kurnitz

"There are only two ways to live . . . one is as though nothing is a miracle. . . the other is as if everything is." - Albert Einstein

"Earn your success based on service to others, not at the expense of others." H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

"God doesn't require us to succeed; he only requires that you try." Mother Teresa

"We can't take any credit for our talents.  It's how we use them that counts."  Madeleine L'Engle (writer)