April 21, 1909
Rollo May
“Freedom is the capacity to pause in the face of stimuli from many directions at once and, in this pause, to throw one’s weight toward this response rather than that one….The pause is especially important for the freedom of being, what I have called essential freedom. For it is in the pause that we experience the context out of which freedom comes. In the pause we wonder, reflect, sense awe, and conceive of eternity. The pause is when we open ourselves for the moment to the concepts of both freedom and destiny.”
April 21, 1939
Sister Helen Prejean
“The profound moral question is not, “Do they deserve to die?” but “Do we deserve to kill them?”
