Theodore Guerin quotes

“We are not called upon to do all the good possible, but only that which we can do.”
-- Theodore Guerin

#Volunteer Quotes

“[The Community's] crosses and trials give me confidence. But I derive my hope above all, and most especially, from our utter incapacity, for it is always upon nothingness that God is pleased to rear His works. If at any day we accomplish some good here, the glory will certainly be His alone, since He has employed for this end instruments more capable of spoiling everything than of making it succeed.”
-- Theodore Guerin

#Giving Quotes #Community Quotes #Trials Quotes

“Let us never forget that if we wish to die like the Saints we must live like them. Let us force ourselves to imitate their virtues, in particular humility and charity.”
-- Theodore Guerin

#Humility Quotes #Wish Quotes #Charity Quotes

“the Americans must have the Almighty dollar. Their cupidity renders them daring and indifferent to everything else. It is nothing to them to expose their lives and those of others in order to gain money. How materialistic these people are!”
-- Theodore Guerin

#Order Quotes #People Quotes #Dollars Quotes

“I have already exceeded the amount of work my head can bear.”
-- Theodore Guerin

#Bears Quotes

“Peace is not so much a political mandate as it is a shared state of consciousness that remains elevated and intact only to the degree that those who value it volunteer their existence as living examples of the same... Peace ends with the unraveling of individual hope and the emergence of the will to worship violence as a healer of private and social dis-ease.”

“I have studied the effects of our new lots of polio vaccine in 100 adult volunteers and during the next few days shall give it to my wife and 2 children as well as to our neighbors and their children.”

“Foreign Ministry guys don't become agents. Party officials, the Foreign Ministry nerds, tend not to volunteer to Western intelligence agencies.”

“In the real world, I see conservatives volunteering at adoption agencies, at churches, at bake sales and the local American Legion Post while the only charity a progressive sends is a smug sermon on fair share and what fairness is.”

“People who volunteer at the recycling center or soup kitchen through a church or neighborhood group can come to feel part of something 'larger.' Such a sense of belonging calls on a different part of a self than the market calls on. The market calls on our sense of self-interest. It focuses us on what we 'get.”

Source : "Pay Someone to Name Your Child? How We Are Outsourcing Our Personal Affairs". Interview with Alyssa Figueroa, Don Hazen, www.alternet.org. August 13, 2012.

“Our nation will succeed or fail to the degree that all of us - citizens and businesses alike - are active participanats in building strong, sustainable and enriching communities.”

“If you can't go where people are happier, try to make people happier where you are.”

“To truly find yourself, touch as many lives as possible!”

“When giving comes directly from the heart, it can never disappoint or embarrass.”

“A "just war" - if there could be such a thing - would not require conscription. Volunteers would be plentiful.”

Source : "Open Letter to President Wilson". Book by Ben Salmon, October 14, 1919.