The Vigil of All Saints

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Take courage

"Take courage, soul!

Hold not thy strength in vain!

With faith o'ercome the steeps

Thy God hath set for thee.

Beyond the Alpine summits of great pain

Lieth thine Italy."

--Rose Terry Cooke

Angels

"...the shadows of our own desires stand between us and our better angels, and thus their brightness is eclipsed."

--Charles Dickens

Per accidens

"At first laying down, as a fact fundamental,

That nothing with God can be accidental."

--Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in Christus-The Golden Legend (Part IV)

Even now

How strange! You were just here with me;

or so it seemed, though that can't be.

It was a dream, so real that I can understand

how I still can feel your hand

even now.

Vision

"As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision."

--Helen Keller

Will

"People do not lack strength, they lack will."

--Victor Hugo