Feast of Saint John Bosco

Everything and everyone is won by the sweetness of our words and of our works.

--Saint John Bosco

Show me your heart

Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love?

--Archbishop Fulton Sheen 

Sunshine

“Keep your face to the sunshine and you will never see the shadow.”

--Helen Keller

Prayer

Prayer is an end to isolation. It is living our daily life with Someone: with Him who alone can deliver us from solitude.

--Georges Lefevre

Time for tea

“Come oh come ye tea-thirsty restless ones - the kettle boils, bubbles and sings, musically.”

--Rabindranath Tagore

Cheerfulness Taught by Reason

I THINK we are too ready with complaint
In this fair world of God's. Had we no hope
Indeed beyond the zenith and the slope
Of yon gray blank of sky, we might grow faint
To muse upon eternity's constraint
Round our aspirant souls; but since the scope
Must widen early, is it well to droop,
For a few days consumed in loss and taint ?
O pusillanimous Heart, be comforted
And, like a cheerful traveller, take the road
Singing beside the hedge. What if the bread
Be bitter in thine inn, and thou unshod
To meet the flints ? At least it may be said
' Because the way is short, I thank thee, God. '
--Elizabeth Barrett Browning

A book

The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.  
--Oliver Wendell Holmes