Little Nothings and Many Musings: Begging Forgiveness

If I am fully determined to try my absolute best never to sin again, I am not ashamed to beg forgiveness from God or neighbor.

Favorite Quotes

"Viva Christo Rey!"
-- Bl. Miguel Pro

"Never let anyone steal your joy."
-- Grandaddy

"I find that laughing at oneself is a very healthy practice. It keeps one both humble and amused."
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"My own plans are made. While I can, I sail east on the Dawn Treader. When she fails me, I paddle east in my coracle. When she sinks, I shall swim east with my four paws. And when I can swim no longer, if I have not reached Aslan's country, or shot over the edge of the world in some vast cataract, I shall sink with my nose to the sunrise and Peepiceek will be head of the talking mice in Narnia."
-- Reepicheep, in C.S. Lewis' book The Dawn Treader

"Everything that happens to you, happens because God wants it to."
-- Mom

"Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is gracious, if there be any excellence, and if there be anything worthy of praise, think about these things."
-- St Paul to the Philippians, Ch. 4 Vs. 8

"So Others May Live"
-- United States Coast Guard

"So Others May Live Eternally"
-- Catholic Priests

"This, too, shall pass."
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"Whenever something disagreeable or displeasing happens to you, remember Christ crucified, and be silent."
-- St. John of the Cross

"If you can't say 'no' to yourself, you are a spiritual pipsqueak."
-- Mother Angelica

"The problem is not that Christianity has been tried and found inadequate--it is that it has never been tried."
-- G.K. Chesterton, parahrased

"Learn, O man, to obey. God so humbled Himself as to be subject to Mary and Joseph, and do you exalt yourself?"
--St. Boniface

"He is not a fool, who gives up what he cannot keep, to gain what he cannot lose."
--(concerning the temporal life vs. the eternal)

“To tell a woman who is forty, "You look like sixteen," is boloney. The blarney way of saying it is "Tell me how old you are, I should like to know at what age women are the most beautiful.” -- Archbishop Fulton Sheen

"Maybe if we are surrounded in beauty, someday we will become what we see."
--Jewel

"Live your life with a LOT of exclamation points."
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Little Nothings and Many Musings

Monday, December 28, 2009

Begging Forgiveness

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