Friday, August 12, 2011

Peace

Peace is the first thing the angels sang. Peace is the mark of the sons of God. Peace is the nurse of love. Peace is the mother of unity. Peace is the rest of blessed souls. Peace is the dwelling place of eternity.
--Pope Saint Leo the Great

Friday, August 5, 2011

In the light

To him who waits all things reveal themselves, provided that he has the courage not to deny in the darkness what he has seen in the light. 
--Coventry Patmore

Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Kindness

Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.
--Seneca

Sunday, July 31, 2011

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

Saturday, July 30, 2011

God's gifts

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

Saturday, July 23, 2011

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

Wednesday, July 20, 2011

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