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For a long time, when driving by a cemetery, I have had the distinct and unshakable sense that those dwelling under the tombstones are watching and waiting and maybe chuckling a little, laughing at the living and their frantic and petty preoccupations. Sometimes, I can’t help but laugh, too.
This idea of the connectedness of the living and the dead runs deep in the human heart, and is confirmed in the doctrine of the Communion of Saints, which is just the Church expounding on the teaching of the Lord that “He is not the God of the dead, but of the living, for to him all are alive.” (Luke 20:38).
— Tim Jones (via)
Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire.
— Thomas Merton
In the world it is called Tolerance, but in Hell it is called Despair, the sin that believes in nothing, cares for nothing, seeks to know nothing, interferes with nothing, enjoys nothing, hates nothing, finds purpose in nothing, lives for nothing, and remains alive because there is nothing for which it will die.
— Dorothy Sayers
There’s an old saying, “Life begins at forty.” That’s silly. Life begins every morning you wake up.
— George Burns
Experience is one thing you can’t get for nothing.
— Oscar Wilde
Life is lived forward but understood backward.
— Søren Kierkegaard (Soren Kierkegaard)