Miracles

Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.

--C.S.Lewis 

Feast of Saint Mary Magdalen

"Many waters cannot quench charity, neither can floods drown it; if a man shall give all the substance of his house for love,  he shall despise it as nothing."
--from the Lesson from the Book of Wisdom for the Mass of Saint Mary Magdalen
 Saint Mary Magdalen, pray for us.

(Happy sixteenth birthday, Stephen.)

Happiness and peace

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

--C. S. Lewis 

Blessing

An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day. 

--Henry David Thoreau

Forgive

'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

--John Sheffield

Friendship

We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel, drop by drop, there is at last a drop that makes it run over:  so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.

-- James Boswell

Dreams

"Keep true to the dreams of thy youth."

--Friedrich von Schiller