var maxQuoteNo = 26 var quoteNo var myQuote = new Array() myQuote[0] = '"God doesn´t require us to succeed; he only requires that you try"
- Mother Teresa' myQuote[1] = '"In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love."
- Mother Teresa' myQuote[2] = '"Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus."
- Mother Teresa' myQuote[3] = '"Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence."
- Pope John Paul II' myQuote[4] = '"Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song."
- Pope John Paul II' myQuote[5] = '"Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do."
- Pope John XXIII' myQuote[6] = '"The family is the first essential cell of human society."
- Pope John XXIII' myQuote[7] = '"Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared."
- Fr Henri Nouwen' myQuote[8] = '"A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the "why" for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any "how.""
- Victor Frankl' myQuote[9] = '"Chastity is not so much about sex as it is about reverence and respect. To be chaste is to experience in such a way as to be fully reverential and respectful."
- Fr Ron Rolheiser OMI' myQuote[10] = '"The renowned anthropologist, Rene Girard, asserts that the cross of Jesus is the single most revolutionary moral event ever in history, but that it is like a capsule whose power is being released slowly (in terms of our understanding and absorption) through the centuries. Simply put, as the centuries go on, slowly, more and more, we are grasping its deeper moral demands."
- Fr Ron Rolheiser OMI' myQuote[11] = '"We must lead people to act like human beings first of all, and then like Christians, and, finally, we must help them to become saints."
- St Eugene de Mazenod' myQuote[12] = '"Oblates are called to be ready to sacrifice goods, talents, ease, self, even their life, for the love of Jesus Christ, the service of the Church and the sanctification of their [brothers and sisters]."
- St Eugene de Mazenod' myQuote[13] = '"Like [Paul] the Apostle, preach Jesus Christ, and him crucified…"
- St Eugene de Mazenod' myQuote[14] = '"The missionaries ought… to imitate in everything the example of our Lord Jesus Christ."
- St Eugene de Mazenod' myQuote[15] = '"I will not leave my room without kneeling at the foot of my crucifix or without kissing the feet of Christ crucified. For the cross is the altar on which Love offered itself in sacrifice."
- St Eugene de Mazenod' myQuote[16] = '"Oblates hear and make heard the clamor of the voiceless."
- Oblate Constitutions and Rules' myQuote[17] = '"Oblate Brothers will seek to encounter [Christ] in the lives of those who toil, especially among the working poor."
- Oblate Constitutions and Rules' myQuote[18] = '"To present Gospel demands in all clarity should never intimidate us."
- Oblate Constitutions and Rules' myQuote[19] = '"We strive to bring all people – especially the poor – to full consciousness of their dignity as human beings and as sons and daughters of God."
- Oblate Constitutions and Rules' myQuote[20] = '"Through the eyes of the crucified savior, we see the world…"
- Oblate Constitutions and Rules' myQuote[21] = '"By obedience we become the servants of all…"
- Oblate Constitutions and Rules' myQuote[22] = '"We announce the liberating presence of Jesus Christ and the new world born in his resurrection."
- Oblate Constitutions and Rules' myQuote[23] = '"We will let our lives be enriched by the poor…for they can make us hear in new ways the Gospel we proclaim."
- Oblate Constitutions and Rules' myQuote[24] = '"Religious stand at the edges of society and the Church… and make the cause of those on the periphery the concern of the heart and centre."
- Letter of the 1998 General Chapter to the Oblates' myQuote[25] = '"Our lives of sharing… contest the ways of individualism, of arbitrary power, of domination, and gives the world a reason to hope."
- Letter of the 1998 General Chapter to the Oblates' myQuote[26] = '"By our living in fraternal community we give witness to the world that a communion of life is possible"
- Letter of the 1998 General Chapter to the Oblates'