Tagged: Aidan Kavanagh

February 16, 2012

Quote of the Day: The Storm Center of the Universe

“For when we talk about confirmation our conversation is really about baptism; when we are dealing with baptism we are discoursing about Christian initiation; when we are into initiation we are face to face with conversion in Jesus Christ dead and rising; and when we are into conversion in Jesus Christ dead and rising we are at the storm center of the universe.” – Aidan Kavanagh, OSB

“It’s not how many books you get through, it’s how many books get through you.” - Mortimer Adler

"Everything we read stimulates our mind to think, and what we think determines what we desire, and desires are the seedbed of our actions. Given this iron law of human nature--from reading to thinking, to desiring, to acting--we are shaping our destiny by the ideas we choose to have enter our minds through print." - Fr. John Hardon, S.J., The Catholic Lifetime Reading Plan

"Every soul that uplifts itself uplifts the world." - Elisabeth Leseur