Birdsong

"The soul cannot live without love.  All depends upon providing it with a worthy object."

Saint Francis de Sales

Flowers

"Flowers are words which even a babe may understand."

--Bishop Coxe

Infinity

 "We have our being in God as birds have theirs in the air, and fishes in the sea; and if only we make the effort to realize it, if only we try to accept this God-given destiny, then our horizons stretch to infinity."

--Reverend Gerald Vann, O.P., in Awake In Heaven

The source of love

 "When the heart is pure it cannot help loving, because it has discovered the source of love which is God."

--Saint John Vianney

Reverence

“Kill reverence, and you have killed the hero in a man”

--Edward Rand

Attempting the deep

"Those few of you who from your youth have raised your eager mouths in search of angels' bread...always hungering, you may, indeed, allow your boat to sail the high seas..."

--Dante in Paradiso

Perseverance

"It was a harder day's journey than yesterday's, for there were long and weary hills to climb; and in journeys, as in life, it is a great deal easier to go down hill than up. However, they kept on, with unabated perseverance, and the hill has not yet lifted its face to heaven that perseverance will not gain the summit of at last."

--from Charles Dickens' Nicholas Nickleby