Seek Him

There are only three types of people: those who have found God and serve Him, those who have not found God and seek Him, and those who live not seeking or finding Him. The first are rational and happy, the second unhappy and rational, and the third foolish and unhappy.

--Blaise Pascal

A spark of heavenly fire

There is in every true woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

--Washington Irving 

(This, dear Hannah, is for you and your courageous mother.)

Cheerfulness

Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.
--Thomas Carlyle

The strong soul

Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: it is this that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.

--Thomas Carlyle

Farther

Go as far as you can see; when you get there you'll be able to see farther.

--Thomas Carlyle

Ash Wednesday

Of all acts of man, repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

--Thomas Carlyle

Hand in hand

Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand.
--Emily Kimbrough