Mike Aquilina quotes

“Part of growing up spiritually is learning to be grateful for all things, even our difficulties, disappointments, failures and humiliations.”
-- Mike Aquilina

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“Everyone should be praised by the lips of his neighbor, and not by his own mouth. Everyone should be commended by the work he has done, not by what he wanted to do.”
-- Mike Aquilina

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“Humility is an elusive virtue. The more we pursue it - and the more we seem to acquire it - the more we take pride in our accomplishment, and we find ourselves back at square one.”
-- Mike Aquilina

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“The family is the great catechism God has given the world. The work of our lifetime is to learn how to read it and then study it prayerfully.”
-- Mike Aquilina

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“If you are looking for truth, stick to the Way - for the truth is the Way. The truth is the destination to which you are going, and it is the Way by which you go. You are not going by one thing as your way to something else as your destination; you are not coming to Christ by something that is other than Christ. You are coming to Christ through Christ.”
-- Mike Aquilina

Source : Mike Aquilina (2011). “A Year with the Angels: Daily Meditations with the Messengers of God”, p.123, TAN Books

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“My dad was so much fun growing up.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.”

“Young people are often asked, 'What do you want to be when you grow up?' and given advice about how to lead meaningful adult lives, but where's the encouragement to lead meaningful lives right now?”

“I've always enjoyed stories that take place in the future but my one disappointment was that the future books described never came. We're not on other planets, there are no flying cars, and the only robots we have in our homes just sweep the floor. So I wanted to write about a future that I thought could really happen. People ask me when I tell them the title of the book, 'Are we all dead?' The good news is, no. We're still here. And I even think the future in my book is strangely hopeful, although I'm sure there will be people who strongly disagree.”

“I went whenever I could, and always my eyes lifted to the hills. I was to find a spiritual and physical satisfaction in climbing mountains and a tranquil mind upon reaching their summits, as though I had escaped from the disappointments and unkindness of life and emerged above them into a new world, a better world.”

“Even the Savior of the world, the Only Begotten Son of God, was obliged to come to earth and to take upon himself an earthly tabernacle. He experienced joy and sorrow, happiness and grief, lasting satisfaction and frequent disappointments. As Paul has written, "Though he were a Son yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered; and being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him."”

Source : Alma P. Burton, Clea M. Burton (1966). “For They Shall Be Comforted”, p.30, Cedar Fort

“There's a disappointment there because I still feel there's an emptiness in my career that just wasn't filled.”

“No money on earth can buy the love and affection that has been given to me by a grateful nation.”

“And we are grateful to the American young men and women who are risking their lives to give the Iraqi people this chance, this dream of democracy in Iraq now.”

Source : "World leaders praise voter courage", www.cnn.com. January 30, 2005.

“Finlay was the godfather of a problem that's rampant everywhere today. He called the people who made his work 'collaborators'... nowadays it's 'fabricators'... talented people who are grateful, desperate and thwarted. There's plenty of them.”