“Our lives are one endless stretch of misery punctuated by processed fast foods and the occasional crisis or amusing curiosity.”
“But just as misery cannot crawl across an endless path, so does the trail of happiness occasionally reach a sharp end." - The Last Gift”
“An interesting life," Yingling told me, "is one filled with controversial successes punctuated by occasional and spectacular failures.”
“... history is forever unfinished, forever in process; endless because our needs are endless.”
“We have sold ourselves into a fast food model of education, and it's impoverishing our spirit and our energies as much as fast food is depleting our physical bodies.”
“Prayer is our yearning for God, the cry of our poverty and misery, stretching out toward the throne of His divine mercy.”