Inspirational thoughts

“True life is lived when tiny changes occur.” Leo Tolstoy

“You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.” Leo Tolstoy

St. John Paul’s first words from his hospital bed after being shot by Ali Agca in St. Peter’s Square were: “Let us pray for my brother who tried to kill me, and whom I have sincerely forgiven.” Shortly after leaving the hospital, he visited Ali in his prison cell to personally forgive him (pictured below).

“Seeing the eternal recompense so disproportionate to the trifling sacrifices of this life, I longed to love Jesus, to love Him ardently, to give him a thousand proofs of tenderness while yet I could do so…” St. Therese of Lisieux

“Blameless people are always the most exasperating.”― George Eliot

“In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.” St. John of the Cross

“We lost because we told ourselves we lost.” Leo Tolstoy

“Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.” Leo Tolstoy. Any relationship starts with respect, but the bonds become deeper when there is a common love for Christ and you are united by a sacrificial and unconditional love!

“Life is passing, Eternity draws nigh: soon shall we live the very life of God. After having drunk deep at the fount of bitterness, our thirst will be quenched at the very source of all sweetness.” St. Therese of Lisieux

“A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one’s heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.” George Eliot

“What greater thing is there for two human souls, than to feel that they are joined for life–to strengthen each other in all labor, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in all pain, to be one with each other in silent unspeakable memories at the moment of the last parting?” George Eliot