Never too late

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

--George Eliot

In Company With the Angels

If we deliberately and perseveringly journey through life in company with the angels, in some strange and glorious manner we shall become like them. . . for no one can travel in the presence of his guardian angel without becoming angelic in thought, word, and action.

--Rev. David P. McAstocker, S.J.

Our guardian angels

Our guardian angels are not of the earth; they are from Heaven. Conversation with them leads the soul to a knowledge and appreciation of the things of the spirit, since they themselves are pure spirits and inflamed with love of the Creator.

--David P. McAstocker, S.J.

Mother

"In the love of a brave and faithful man there is always a strain of maternal tenderness; he gives out again those beams of protecting fondness which were shed on him as he lay on his mother's knee."

--George Eliot 

 

[In your charity, dear friends, please pray for the soul of Phyllis, beloved wife, mother, and grandmother. She passed into Eternity early this morning, leaving behind, among others, a brave and faithful son who I am honored to call my friend. Eternal rest grant unto her, O Lord. May her soul, and the souls of all the faithful departed, rest in peace.]   

Tenderness

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
--T. S. Eliot

However things may seem

However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.

--Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Gift of Making Friends

Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God's best gifts. It involves many things, but above all, the power of going out of one's self, and appreciating whatever is noble and loving in another.

--Thomas Hughes