Humiliation

 
"When you are suffering under the blow of a humiliation, think of those He endured.  He was not obliged to suffer them, but He knew how hard it would be for us to be humiliated, so He Himself willed to be the first to show us the way, in order to be able to say to us, 'Where I have passed you can pass, too.'"

--Father Jean C. J. d'Elbee in I Believe In Love

Monday in Holy Week

 

 
"There is no cure for want of love but love."

--Bishop Fulton Sheen in Way To Happiness

Good temper

"Good temper, like a sunny day, sheds light on everything."

--Washington Irving

Love enough

"God gave us love enough to spend in getting back to Him so that we could find infinity there; He did not give us love enough to hoard."

--Bishop Fulton J. Sheen in Way To Happiness

The loving abandonment of Mary

"Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it done to me according to your word."  This is the fiat of Mary, pronounced in the name of all humanity.  Without her we would not have Jesus;  we would not have our Brother, our Friend, our Savior.  The loving abandonment of Mary is at the origin of our Redemption.

--Father Jean C.J. d'Elbee in I Believe in Love

Secrets of the heart

"The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking
confess the secrets of the heart."

--Saint Jerome

Still

"The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater."

-Haldir in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Fellowship of the Ring