“What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.” Leo Tolstoy
Compatibility or complimentary?
Kindness
“Most people are nice when you finally see them.”– Harper Lee
Kindness
Sainthood
“Where most men work for degrees after their names, we work for one ‘before’ our names: ‘St.’ It’s a much more difficult degree to attain. It takes a lifetime, and you don’t get your diploma until you’re dead.”Mother Angelica
Striving to be a “Saint”?
Radio Program with Fr. Eamon Kelly, LC
Keep your peace
“Strive to preserve your heart in peace; let no event of this world disturb it.” St. John of the Cross
Strive to keep your inner peace
God’s challenges
“We imagine that when we are thrown out of our usual ruts all is lost, but it is only then that what is new and good begins. While there is life there is happiness. There is much, much before us.” – Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace