Faith

"Faith is that which, knowing the Lord's will, goes and does it; or, not knowing it, stands and waits, content in ignorance as in knowledge, because God wills -- neither pressing into the hidden future, nor careless of the knowledge which opens the path of action."

--George MacDonald

Made of love

"The soul is made of love and must ever strive to return to love. Therefore, it can never find rest or happiness in other things. It must lose itself in love. By its very nature, it must seek God, Who is love..."

--Saint Mechtilde

Twinned lambs...

"We were as twinned lambs that did frisk i' the sun,
And bleat the one at the other: what we changed
Was innocence for innocence; we knew not
The doctrine of ill-doing, nor dreamed
That any did."

-- from William Shakespeare' s The Winter's Tale

Seldom

"Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised or a little mistaken."

--Jane Austen

Feast of Saint Monica

"For my mother, Your faithful servant, wept for me before You more than mothers
weep when lamenting their dead children. By the ‘faith and spiritual discernment’
(Gal 5:5) which she had from You, she perceived the death which held me, and
You heard her, Lord. You heard her and did not despise her tears which poured
forth to wet the ground under her eyes in ever place where she prayed."
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--Saint Augustine in Confessions.

Saint Monica, pray for us that our prayers for our children may be answered as were yours so that God may be glorified in their salvation.

Two wings

 "The two wings of our souls, immune to any gust of wind, are true love and faith."

--Stanislas Xavier-Touchet

Quest

 

"The quest of invulnerability, the search for a comfortable life beyond interference, the refusal to be put out by anything or anybody:  these will not bring comfort but misery, because their end is isolation and death of  soul.  You will be undisturbed if this is your object, oh, yes;  and unless you are so dead as to have no feeling left to you, you will cry out for someone..."

--Father Gerald Vann in The High Green Hill