Useful words of wisdom from Inigo...

"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

"You told me to go back to the beginning. So I have. This is where I am, and this is where I'll stay. I will not be moved."

"Let me explain. No, there is too much. Let me sum up..."

--from the completely quotable movie The Princess Bride

from the Mass of Holy Thursday

"Nos autem gloriari opportet in cruce Domini nostri Jesu Christi: in quo est salus, vita, et resurrectio per quem salvati et liberati sumus."

"But it behooves us to glory in the cross of Our Lord Jesus Christ: in Whom is our salvation, our life and our resurrection; by Whom we are saved and delivered."

Birdsong

"Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature has furnished them to the shame of art."

--Izaak Walton

This morning

When I looked out of the window,
there he was: the dearest little robin
looking up from the snow as if to say,
"Hello! You are safe and warm, but I, too,
am unharmed. For the hand which cares
for you guides me, too. Never fear! For
wherever we go He is near, watching
carefully. He loves us so!" And I left to
walk across the snow to His little church
to thank Him for this morning.

Green again...

"A tree hath hope: if it be cut, it groweth green again, and the boughs thereof sprout."

-- Job 14, 7 from the Mass for the feast of St. John Damascene, March 27; his right hand, cut off, was miraculously restored.

The edge...

"Come to the edge."
"We can't, we are afraid."
"Come to the edge."
"We can't, we will fall."
And they came to the edge.
And He pushed them.
And they flew.

--Appolinaire

In the Houses of Healing...

Eowyn: The city has fallen silent. There is no warmth left in the sun.
Faramir: [Approaching her] It is only the damp of the first Spring rain.
[Eowyn looks up at him.]
Faramir: I do not believe this darkness will endure.