Dec 23 2008
Listen
The words of wise men are heard in quiet.
Ecclesiastes 9:17
Dec 22 2008
God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go through it, not without pain but without stain.
C.S. Lewis
Dec 18 2008
You know well enough that Our Lord does not look so much at the greatness of our actions, nor even at their difficulty, but at the love at which we do them.
St. Therese of Lisieux, The Little Flower (1873-1897)
Dec 15 2008
No one after lighting a lamp puts it in a cellar, but on the lampstand so that those who enter may see the light. You eye is the lamp of your body. If your eye is healthy, your whole body is full of light; but if it is not healthy, your body is full of darkness.
Luke 11:33-34
New Revised Standard Version
Dec 11 2008
Keep watching the wind and you will never sow, keep staring at the clouds and you will never reap.
Ecclesiastes 11:4
Dec 10 2008
God is the friend of silence. See how nature – trees, flowers, grass – grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence.
We need silence to be able to touch souls.
Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta
Dec 08 2008
Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Dec 04 2008
People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains, at the huge waves of the seas, at the long course of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars, and yet they pass by themselves without wondering.
St. Augustine of Hippo (354-430)
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