The face of God

"When we see the face of God we shall know that we have always known it. He has been a party to, has made, sustained and moved moment by moment within, all our earthly experiences of innocent love.”

--C. S. Lewis

Fate

Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it.

--Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

True friends

“True friends... face in the same direction, toward common projects, interests, goals.”

--C. S. Lewis

Best

“What seem our worst prayers may really be, in God's eyes, our best. Those, I mean, which are least supported by devotional feeling. For these may come from a deeper level than feeling. God sometimes seems to speak to us most intimately when He catches us, as it were, off our guard.”

--C. S. Lewis

One kind word

"One kind word can warm three winter months."

--Japanese proverb

Every winter

"Every winter,
When the great sun has turned his face away,
The earth goes down into a vale of grief,
And fasts, and weeps, and shrouds herself in sables,
Leaving her wedding-garlands to decay--
Then leaps in spring to his returning kisses. "

--Charles Kingsley in Saint's Tragedy (Act III, Scene 1)

Blessing

"When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place.”

--C. S. Lewis