Joseph Bernardin quotes

“What I would like to leave behind is a simple prayer that each of you may find what I have found—God’s special gift to us all: the gift of peace. When we are at peace, we find the freedom to be most fully who we are, even in the worst of times. We let go of what is nonessential and embrace what is essential. We empty ourselves so that God may more fully work within us. And we become instruments in the hands of the Lord.”
-- Joseph Bernardin

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“Health care is an essential safeguard of human life and dignity and there is an obligation for society to ensure that every person be able to realize this right.”
-- Joseph Bernardin

Source : Joseph Bernardin, Alphonse P. Spilly (2000). “Selected Works of Joseph Cardinal Bernardin: Homilies and teaching documents”, p.99, Liturgical Press

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“Some services are too important to leave to the marketplace.”
-- Joseph Bernardin

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“The past is for learning from and letting go. You can't revisit it. It vanishes.”

Source : Adele Parks (2012). “Young Wives' Tales”, p.374, Hachette UK

“Real meditation is not about mastering a technique; it's about letting go of control.”

“What if you let go of every bit of control and every urge that you have, right down to the most infinitesimal urge to control anything, anywhere, including anything that may be happening with you at this moment? If you were able to give up control absolutely, totally, and completely, then you would be a spiritually free being.”

“The mind wants to land, to fixate, to hold a concept, but the only way you can be really free is by not fixating. That's part of true maturity, and it's one of the hardest things for spiritual people who have had true and powerful revelations to go through - to accept the degree of surrender needed to literally let go of all experience and all self-reference. Even in great revelations, there is almost always something that wants to claim, "I am this." Every time you claim, "I am this", you just claimed another sense perception, thought, emotion, or feeling.”

Source : Source: collider.com

“There is no wonder more supernatural and divine in the life of a believer than the mystery and ministry of prayer...the hand of the child touching the arm of the Father and moving the wheel of the universe.”

“When we have accepted Jesus Christ, we have become akin to the Father; having become real children of God, we then have the spirit of sonship by which we can come into His presence and make known our wants in a familiar way.”

“The test of a good letter is a very simple one. If one seems to hear the other person talking as one reads, it is a good letter.”

“The business of making a photograph may be said in simple terms to consist of three elements: the objective world (whose permanent condition is change and disorder), the sheet of paper on which the picture will be realized, and the experience which brings them together.”

Source : Aaron Siskind, Henry Holmes Smith, Thomas B. Hess (1965). “Aaron Siskind, photographer”

“It struck me that our history is contained in the home we live in, that we are shaped by the ability of these simple structures to resist being defiled”

Source : Achmat Dangor (1999). “Kafka's Curse”, Pantheon

“In regards to the price of commodities, the rise of wages operates as simple interest does, the rise of profit operates like compound interest. Our merchants and masters complain much of the bad effects of high wages in raising the price and lessening the sale of goods. They say nothing concerning the bad effects of high profits. They are silent with regard to the pernicious effects of their own gains. They complain only of those of other people.”