Feast of Christ the King

[Insignia of the Vendeans, France, 1793-1796.]

Real love

Real love...wills the good of the one loved, but it knows that that good is to be found in loving obedience to the will of God.

--Rev. Gerald Vann

The blessings of heaven

Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven.

--G.C.Lichtenberg

As the angels give

If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.

--George MacDonald

A single candle

All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.

--Saint Francis of Assisi

A sudden joy

All of us have had the experience of a sudden joy that came when nothing in the world had forewarned us of its coming - a joy so thrilling that if it was born of misery we remembered even the misery with tenderness.

-Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand and Stars, 1939, translated from French by Lewis Galantière

Love is never lost

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

                                                  --Washington Irving