When the heart is pure

When the heart is pure it cannot help loving, because it has discovered the source of love which is God.
--Saint John Vianney

God's gifts

God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame.
--Elizabeth Barrett Browning

God alone

He who has the right confidence in God knows that his prayer is never condemned by God, Whose merciful glance is always turned toward us; but he also knows that God alone can judge what profits us best and that, therefore, His answer is always the answer of omniscient charity.
-- Dietrich von Hildebrand in Transformation in Christ

True confidence in God

He who is filled with true confidence in God clings, in the presence of all things that by themselves justly arouse his anxiety, to the supreme reality and the omnipotent love and mercy of God.

--Dietrich von Hildebrand in Transformation in Christ

To the house of thy friend

Go often to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.
--Author unknown

Not a single beauty

There is not a single beauty in the million-million shades which embellish the flowers of grove or garden or field, or clothe, at dawn or noontide or sunset, the face of earth and heaven, which is not a creation of glorious light, the visible image of His divine countenance in Whom is the source of all splendor and life and beauty.
--Rev. Bernard O'Reilly in The Mirror of True Womanhood

Not the cry

Not the cry, but the flight of the wild bird leads the flock to fly and to follow."
--Chinese proverb