With respect to Holy Communion, it is up to the communicant to decide whether they are in a state of grace and worthy to receive the Eucharist. Each one of us makes that decision.

The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity.

Miguel de Cervantes

Those who compare the age in which their lot has fallen with a golden age which exists only in imagination, may talk of degeneracy and decay; but no man who is correctly informed as to the past, will be disposed to take a morose or desponding view of the present.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Appreciation is the highest form of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts.

Alan Cohen

All lovers live by longing, and endure; summon a vision and declare it pure

Theodore Roethke

Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

Francis Bacon

Of toiling, uncheered and alone,

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For students today, only 10 percent of children from working-class families graduate from college by the age of 24 as compared to 58 percent of upper-middle-class and wealthy families.

Patrick J. Kennedy

I am doing a great work and I cannot come down. Why should the work stop while I leave it and come down to you? Nehemiah 6:3

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I've always said that an art critic can put aside politics around art.

Jerry Saltz

It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.

George Washington

So wie die Verruecktheit in einem hoeheren Sinn, der Anfang aller Weisheit ist, so ist die Schizophrenie der Anfang aller Kunst, aller Phantasie. (As insanity in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom, so is schizophrenia the beginning of all art, all fantasy.)

Hermann Hesse

Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.

Benjamin Franklin