Michael Elmore-Meegan

"All God wants of man is a compassionate heart."

"Do exactly what you would do if you felt most loved and cherished."

"Man goes far away or near but God never goes far-off; he is always standing close at hand, and even if he cannot stay within he goes no further than the door."

"“That someday there will be no them and us. There will be no colour and no differences between us. There will be only one human family working together.”"

"All our emotional scars and mental stress come from the pain of being fully accepted and cherished in ourselves."

"Because of the distrust that has grown from our experience, we are very careful whom we welcome. We are selective in our companions, we look suspiciously those who sit beside us in a bar and start talking to us: “is he crazy? What’s he up to?” we wonder. The city becomes a desert. With groups of friends who are nobody else’s friends. As Emily Dickinson, the reclusive poet, once wrote: “The soul selects its own society, then shuts the door.”"

"“Vision without action which fails to touch the lives of the poor is not vision, but self delusion.”"

"“The future lies in education, for 36 years ICROSS has focused on educating girls and making sure that they see their own potential”"

"Words take their meaning from the original word."

"“The biggest lie and dishonesty about change or the impact of projects is created by the lords of poverty who profit from the business and industry of aid.”"

"In order to create and to heal, to do and to serve, ..to act we need detachment."

"Every now and then its good to step back a little. When we let go a little and remove ourselves from the drama , we can see more clearly. So often we are caught up in the stress we fail to see what triggers our worries. When we are still and put distance between our problems we often discover the solutions"