Gifts

"Every best gift, and every perfect gift, is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no change, nor shadow of alteration."

-Saint James, Chapter 1, verse 17.

Love

“Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.”

--C.S. Lewis

Mother

Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us.

Faith

"Faith is that which, knowing the Lord's will, goes and does it; or, not knowing it, stands and waits, content in ignorance as in knowledge, because God wills -- neither pressing into the hidden future, nor careless of the knowledge which opens the path of action."

--George MacDonald

Made of love

"The soul is made of love and must ever strive to return to love. Therefore, it can never find rest or happiness in other things. It must lose itself in love. By its very nature, it must seek God, Who is love..."

--Saint Mechtilde

Twinned lambs...

"We were as twinned lambs that did frisk i' the sun,
And bleat the one at the other: what we changed
Was innocence for innocence; we knew not
The doctrine of ill-doing, nor dreamed
That any did."

-- from William Shakespeare' s The Winter's Tale

Seldom

"Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised or a little mistaken."

--Jane Austen