Love is the emblem

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time, effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.
--Anne Louise Germaine de Stael

Forever

Love is not written on paper, for paper can be erased. Nor is it etched on stone, for stone can be broken. But it is inscribed on a heart and there it shall remain forever.
--Oscar Wilde

Be faithful

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

--Mother Teresa

He who prays

He who prays and labors lifts his heart to God with his hands.
--Saint Bernard of Clairvaux

Sacrifice

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes. 

--Saint Therese of Lisieux

At the center

God is at the center of our souls and there He waits to converse as a friend with us.
--Father Yves le Roux

(Happy birthday, dear Emilie!)

God is awake

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

--Victor Hugo