People are like stained glass windows: They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light within.
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
February 6, 2015
In ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
February 4, 2015
Loss makes artists of us all as we weave new patterns in the fabric of our lives.
Greta W. Crosby
January 12, 2015
Where you stumble, there your treasure lies.
Joseph Campbell
January 9, 2015
People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone.
Audrey Hepburn
December 15, 2014
We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned,
so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
Joseph Campbell
December 10, 2014
In Honor of “Our Lives Matter” – Candlelight Vigil and Speak Out
Seeing all of you here tonight gives me hope. Hearing your voices and resonating with your stories gives me chills. Knowing that there are so many people within our community who are just as concerned and ready for action as I gives me strength. As we stand here gathered around the statue of St. Ignatius, the founder of Loyola University as well as the Jesuit society, I am reminded of why I was so willing to put myself into debt up to my eyeballs instead of being paid to attend a state school back home—the Jesuit mission.
Of the 12 Jesuit ideals, there are 5 in particular that assured me that I made the right decision in choosing to attend this unique university: Respect for the world, its history and mystery; Contemplative vision formed by Hope; Commitment to Service; Linking Faith with Justice; and Special Concern for the Poor and Oppressed. With these ideals in mind, along with the stated mission of the Loyola community, “to become conscious of the achievements and failures of all human history, particularly those of their own culture and time,”I am confident that we, as a community, are not only capable, but destined to enact powerful, positive, and lasting change. The work will not be easy, but together we can make a difference.
In closing, I’d like to thank you all for coming out tonight, and remind you that we will be having more events in the spring. If you are interested in helping to any future events, please feel free to stay and talk to one of us! I encourage you all to continue the fight for Justice over the holidays, and in the words of our beloved Iggy, “Go forth and set the world on fire.”
Loyola New Orleans student, Angel M. Pittman
Junior, Chemistry/Forensic Science Major
December 8, 2014
Even in a world that's being shipwrecked, remain brave and strong.
Hildegard von Bingen
Tuesday, December 2
Life is too short to experience everything,
but the human heart is big enough to resonate with everything that any other human heart has experienced.
David Steindl-Rast
December 1, 2014
If you have a strong mind and plant in it a firm resolve, you can change your destiny.
Paramahansa Yogananda
Monday, Nov. 17
There is a calmness to a life lived in
gratitude, a quiet joy.
Ralph H. Blum
Monday, Nov. 10
Love the things you've got until one
day you realize that the life you have is
the life you want.
Kirsten Hawkins, age 15
November 10, 2014
One single gift acknowledged in gratefulness has the power to dissolve the ties of our alienation.
David Steindl-Rast
Gratefulness, the Heart of Prayer
October 24, 2014
When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.
Jimi Hendrix
October 20, 2014
Although we have been made to believe that if we let go we will end up with nothing, life reveals just the opposite: that letting go is the real path to freedom.
Sogyal Rinpoche
Glimpse After Glimpse
October 17, 2014
It is a powerful practice to be generous when you are the one feeling in need.
Allan Lokos
Through the Flames
October 16, 2014
Umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu. (A person is a person because of other people.)
African Proverb
October 14, 2014
To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury,
and refinement rather than fashion....In a word, to let the spiritual,
unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common.
This is to be my symphony.
William Henry Channing
October 10, 2014
The nonviolent approach does not immediately change the heart of the oppressor.
It first does something to the hearts and souls of those committed to it.
It gives them new self-respect; it calls up resources of strength and courage they did not know they had.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
October 6, 2014
Trust yourself; you know more than you think you do.
Benjamin Spock