Real love

"In real love we can hardly distinguish giving from getting: each is indistinguishably both. The lover's giving is his getting: that his gift should be lovingly accepted is itself a gift to him, and the gift he values most."

--Reverend Gerald Vann, O.P. in The Heart of Man

Perfection

  

 "Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."

--Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Proverb

  “A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it.”

 

--John Keats

Christ the Lord is risen

"Now let the heavens be joyful,
Let earth her song begin:
Let the round world keep triumph,
And all that is therein;
Invisible and visible,
Their notes let all things blend,
For Christ the Lord is risen,
Our joy that hath no end."

--John of Damascus

Baptized in Christ

 "All you who have been baptized in Christ have put on Christ, alleluia."

--from the Mass of Easter Saturday

Easter Friday

"Without love, everything is painful, everything is tiring, everything is burdensome.  The Cross, taken up hesitantly, is crushing;  taken smilingly, by free will, and with love, it will carry you much more than you carry it.  Love makes time eternal by giving a divine value to everything."

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

His marvelous light

"Ye people whom God hath purchased, declare the virtues, alleluia, of Him Who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light, alleluia."

--from the Mass of Easter Thursday