Fruitfulness

In order to be a fruitful apostle, begin by being a saint--a soul of love. The only fruitfulness is holiness.

--Rev. Jean C. J. D'Elbee

To trust

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.  

--Samuel Johnson

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