April 2010
24 posts
To love someone means to see him as God intended him.
– Dostoevsky
In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very...
– Douglas Adams
I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
– G.K. Chesterton
For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the...
– J.R.R. Tolkien
Ah, love, let us be true
To one another! for the world, which seems
To lie...
– Matthew Arnold, Dover Beach
It is not bigotry to be certain we are right; but it is bigotry to be unable to...
– G. K. Chesterton
The union of the mathematician with the poet,
fervor with measure,
passion...
– William James, Collected Essays
When we do not suffer at all, our love is then neither great nor pure.
– St. Faustina, Divine Mercy in My Soul, No. 303
When we suffer much we have a great chance to show God that we love Him.
– St. Faustina, Divine Mercy in My Soul, No. 303
The purer our love becomes, the less there will be within us for the flames of...
– St. Faustina, Divine Mercy in My Soul, No. 303
My Jesus, when I look at this life of souls, I see that many of them serve You...
– St. Faustina, Divine Mercy in My Soul, No. 287
Let no soul, even the most miserable, fall prey to doubt; for, as long as one is...
– St. Faustina, Divine Mercy in My Soul, No. 283
Why do You hide in faith? Love tears away the veil.
– St. Faustina, Divine Mercy in My Soul, No. 278
O Infinite One beyond all understanding, the more I know You the less I...
– St. Faustina, Divine Mercy in My Soul, No. 278
Hidden Jesus, Eternal Love, our Source of Life, Divine Madman, in that You...
– St. Faustina, Divine Mercy in My Soul, No. 278
From the moment I came to love suffering, it ceased to be a suffering for me.
– St. Faustina, Divine Mercy in My Soul, No. 276
A hidden flower is the most fragrant.
– St. Faustina, Divine Mercy in My Soul, No. 275
I will be like a tiny violet hidden in the grass, which does not hurt the foot...
– St. Faustina, Divine Mercy in My Soul, No. 255
When a democracy loses its moral sense, it can vote itself right out of...
– Fulton Sheen, Life of Christ, p. 355
For the wound which is borne in God’s way brings a change of heart too...
– St. Paul, II Corinthians 7:10
Everything can be pardoned except the refusal to seek pardon, as life can...
– Fulton Sheen, Life of Christ, p. 351
When we think about the Crucifixition, we miss the point if we don’t think...
– Flannery O’Conner
He who wants to learn true humility should reflect upon the Passion of Jesus.
– St. Faustina, Divine Mercy in My Soul, No. 267