Perseverance

"It was a harder day's journey than yesterday's, for there were long and weary hills to climb; and in journeys, as in life, it is a great deal easier to go down hill than up. However, they kept on, with unabated perseverance, and the hill has not yet lifted its face to heaven that perseverance will not gain the summit of at last."

--from Charles Dickens' Nicholas Nickleby

To behold the sun

 "Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun..."

--The Book of Ecclesiastes

Holy Eucharist

 

The soul, like the body, lives by what it feeds on."

--Josiah Gilbert Holland

Good Shepherd Sunday

"No man can follow Christ and go astray."

--William H.P. Faunce

Nobly done

 "Nothing of what is nobly done is ever lost."

--Charles Dickens

Poppies

 "Through the dancing poppies stole 
A breeze most softly lulling to my soul."

--from John Keats' Poppies

Faithful

"It is love that asks, that seeks, that knocks, that finds, and that is faithful to what it finds."

--Saint Augustine