Quest

 

"The quest of invulnerability, the search for a comfortable life beyond interference, the refusal to be put out by anything or anybody:  these will not bring comfort but misery, because their end is isolation and death of  soul.  You will be undisturbed if this is your object, oh, yes;  and unless you are so dead as to have no feeling left to you, you will cry out for someone..."

--Father Gerald Vann in The High Green Hill

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