A Man's Character

Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
--Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Enough happiness

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys.  If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.  

--Fyodor Dostoevsky

Faith And Hope

Faith has to do with things that are not seen, and hope with things that are not at hand.

--Saint Thomas Aquinas

Saint Thomas Aquinas, pray for us.

Eternal Crown

When a child is given to his parents, a crown is made for that child in Heaven, and woe to the parents who raise a child without consciousness of that eternal crown!

                              --Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen

Love demands it

"We must be willing to choose discomfort when Love demands it.  And of course Love does demand it, first of all because the self-seeking which is so deeply rooted in us is an offense against love."

--Rev. Gerald Vann in The Divine Pity

(The image is entitled "The Mystical Wine Press.")
[This is a re-post from 2010.]

Hope

Hope is patience with the lamp lit.

--Tertullian

Feast of Saint Valentine

  Amongst all loves, God's is so to be preferred that we must always stand prepared in mind to forsake them all for that alone.

--Saint Francis de Sales  

Saint Valentine, pray for us.