Quotes by The Mother

“Therefore, let there be beauty and strength, power and compassion, honor and humility, mirth and reverence within you.”

“Who told you that your journey was a thousand miles”

“We must be what we wish our children to be. They will form their characters from ours.”

“If a child cannot place implicit confidence in his parent, most assuredly no confidence can be reposed in the child.”

“And you who seek to know me,know that the seeking and yearning will avail you not,unless you know the Mystery:For if that which you seek,you find not within yourself, you will never find it without.”

“Honest but gentle communication from the beginning is key.”

“However impatient she might be in the day, however filled with little sudden angers, at night she was all tenderness.”

“It is because baptism is a real insertion of human beings into the ascended manhood of Christ that the Church is Christ's own body, flesh of his flesh and bone of his bones.”

“Be grateful for all ordeals, they are the shortest way to the Divine.”

“You take up the spiritual path only when you feel you cannot do otherwise.”

“We were girls once. As hard as that is to believe. //Oh you can't see it now--our bodies have stretched and sagged, faces and necks drooping. That's what happens when you get old. Every part of you...”

“I was suppose to write a book about being a mom, to organize my thoughts into chapters and figure out a structure to hang them on, to make a lasting point, but somehow I decided to go ahead and bec...”

“The how of any betrayal was the hardest part to justify. How the lies can be assembled and stacked and maintained until the truth was completely hidden behind them.”

“Consider the Divine Life as the most important thing to obtain.”

“The daughter prays”

“If Porter crawled into bed with me, I wouldn’t flee the scene right away. I probably wouldn’t even kick him out. I might kick him in the gonads and then rub my cheek against his chest because that’...”

“You’ve spent her whole life holding her. Whether cradled in your arms as a baby or wrapped in your embrace as a young woman, she’s been yours to have and to hold, Mother of the Bride—until now. Now...”

“It was strange learning the contours of another’s loneliness. You could never know it all at once; like stepping inside a dark cave, you felt along the walls, bumped into jagged edges.”

“The daughter prays”