Goodness

Goodness is love in action, love with its hand to the plow, love with the burden on its back, love following his footsteps who went about continually doing good.

--James Hamilton

True eyes

Those true eyes,

Too pure and too honest in aught to disguise

The sweet soul shining through them.

--Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton

 

The measure

We can never have too much hope in God. He gives in the measure we ask.

--Saint Therese of Lisieux

Good nature

An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of Heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.

--Washington Irving

The ordinary way

There are no short cuts to Heaven, only the ordinary way of ordinary things.

--Rev. Vincent McNabb

Feast of the Most Holy Name of Mary

"O sweet name, which gives the sinner strength and blessed hope. We pray thee, Our Lady, Star of the Sea, shine upon us in our distress on the sea of life, and lead us to safe harbor and the ineffable joys of eternity."

--Saint Anthony of Padua

Faithful friends

Words are easy, like the wind;

Faithful friends are hard to find.

--William Shakespeare