Holiness

"Holiness consists in a disposition of the heart, which places us in the arms of God, little and humble, conscious of our weakness and trusting blindly in His Fatherly goodness."
--Saint Therese of Lisieux
Saint Andre Bessette, pray for us!

Friendship

“Friendship consists in forgetting what one gives, and remembering what one receives”

--Alexandre Dumas

Love alone

“It is love alone that gives worth to all things.”

--Saint Teresa of Avila
Saint Teresa, pray for us.

Music amongst the trees

“There is always music amongst the trees in the garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it.”

 

--Minnie Aumonier

Our Lady of Fatima

“The Lord told us that the Church will always be suffering in various ways, up to the end of the world. The important point is that the message, the answer of Fatima, is not substantially addressed to particular devotions, but is the fundamental response: permanent conversion, penance, prayer, and the three cardinal virtues: faith, hope and charity.” 
--Pope Benedict XVI at Fatima, 2010

Time

Think not thy time short in this world, since the world itself is not long. The created world is but a small parenthesis in eternity, and a short interposition, for a time, between such a state of duration as was before it and may be after it.
--Sir Thomas Browne

The Divine Maternity of Our Lady

Love is sufficient of itself; it gives pleasure by itself and because of itself.
It is its own merit, its own reward. Love looks for no cause outside itself, no
effect beyond itself. Its profit lies in the practice. Of all the movements,
sensations and feelings of the soul, love is the only one in which the creature
can respond to the Creator and make some sort of similar return however unequal
though it be. For when God loves, all He desires is to be loved in return. The
sole purpose of His love is to be loved, in the knowledge that those who love
Him are made happy by their love of Him.
-- Saint Bernard of Clairvaux