Secrets of the heart

"The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking
confess the secrets of the heart."

--Saint Jerome

Still

"The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater."

-Haldir in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Fellowship of the Ring

True worth

"The true worth of a race must be measured by the character of its womanhood."

--Mary Mcleod Bethune

Sorrowful Mother, pray for us.

The Cross

 

"Jesus will never let the Cross crush you;  on the contrary, it will lift you up toward Heaven.  It is no longer you who will carry it;  it is the Cross which will carry you."

--Father Jean C. J. d'Elbee in I Believe in Love

Spring

"Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems."

~Rainer Maria Rilke

Ad te Joseph

Great Saint Joseph, foster-father of the Child Jesus and chaste spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary, guard and protect us that we may one day be in Heaven praising God forever with you.

Without love

“Without love, deeds, even the most brilliant, count as nothing.”

--Saint Therese of Lisieux