Inspirational thoughts

“The cross, taken up hesitantly, is crushing, taken smilingly, by free will, and with love, it will carry you much more than you will carry it.” Fr. Jean D’Elbee

“Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.” – Leo Tolstoy

“The highest form of knowledge is empathy, for it requires us to suspend our ego and live in another’s world.”  George Eliot

“Faith hears the inaudible, sees the invisible, believes the incredible and receives the impossible.” Amish proverb

“Everyone feels benevolent if nothing happens to be annoying him at the moment.” C.S. Lewis

“Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free-wills involve, and you find that you have excluded life itself.” CS Lewis

“It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.” Leonardo Da Vinci

“You aspire to great things? Begin with little ones.” St. Benedict

“There can be only one permanent revolution — a moral one; the regeneration of the inner man. How is this revolution to take place? Nobody knows how it will take place in humanity, but every man feels it clearly in himself. And yet in our world everybody thinks of changing humanity, and nobody thinks of changing himself.” Leo Tolstoy