Quotables as a Reference for REACT

I changed the title of "learning from the saints" section to "quotables" to include more resources and ways to reinforce the letters of REACT acronym.

Here's the URL to the quotables page:

https://highschoolreact.blogspot.com/2023/07/quotables.html

The quotes so far:

1.  St. Thomas More: "You must not abandon the ship in a storm [just] because you cannot control the winds."   

[Acceptance, Courage. Accepting the limits of our humanity/humanness part. Having courage in the face of strong headwinds.]

2. From George Weigel's book on St PJP2: "Against the temptation to regard utility as the sole criterion for measuring anyone's worth, [St. Pope John Paul II] has insisted that every human being possesses an inherent and inalienable dignity and value." 
   

[Respect. Respecting that you have dignity, respecting the dignity of other people despite whatever our shortcomings and failings might be. Respecting that we don't lose this self-worth even when others call us losers, yet also recognizing that we don't earn this self-worth from how awesome other people think we are.]

3. St. John Henry Newman: "Every one who breathes, high and low, educated and ignorant, young and old, man and woman, has a mission, has a work. We are not sent into this world for nothing; we are not born at random; . . . God sees every one of us; He creates every soul, He lodges it in the body, one by one, for a purpose. He needs, He deigns to need, every one of us. He has an end for each of us; we are all equal in His sight, and we are placed in our different ranks and stations, not to get what we can out of them for ourselves, but to labor in them for Him. As Christ has His work, we too have ours; as He rejoiced to do His work, we must rejoice in ours also."
   

[Trust that our life has meaning. Trust that we have purpose. Respect our createdness]

4. St. James the Apostle: "If we put bits into the mouths of horses to make them obey us, we also guide their whole bodies. It is the same with ships: even though they are so large and driven by fierce winds, they are steered by a very small rudder wherever the pilot's inclination wishes. In the same way the tongue is a small member and yet has great pretensions." (James 3:3-5)
   

[Courage to hold our tongue. This will be very relevant in our module that involves relationships/communication]

5. Johann Sebastian Bach: "God's time is the very best time."

[Trust. Trusting God's timing. When we don't get what we want when we want it, it's not that we are left with nothing. It is a moment we can consider God's timing versus what we think is our own. Things ultimately happen according to God's timing for us, not based on ours.]

6. President Franklin D. Roosevelt: “Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.”

[Courage. Having fear does not mean you lack courage. It's what you do, how you act, how you think during times of fear that defines your level of courage. Where does your courage come from?]