“It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved in our own home. Bring love into your home for this is where our love for each other must start.” St. Mother Teresa
Inspirational thoughts
Sensitive souls
“It is because I think so much of warm and sensitive hearts, that I would spare them from being wounded.” Charles Dickens
Love in the family
“A silent look of affection and regard when all other eyes are turned coldly away—the consciousness that we possess the sympathy and affection of one being when all others have deserted us—is a hold, a stay, a comfort, in the deepest affliction, which no wealth could purchase, or power bestow.” Charles Dickens
Healthy confrontation
“If you are afraid of confrontation, you are not going to do very well.”
—Bill Parcells, Head Coach, New York Giants (1983-90), New England Patriots (1993-96)
Blaming others?
“You fail all the time, but you aren’t a failure until you start blaming someone else.”
—Bum Phillips Head Coach, Houston Oilers (1975-80), New Orleans Saints (1981-85)
Responding to Jesus’s knock
“You must never ask Jesus to wait.” St. Ursula
Don’t slow God down
Faith and family
“Disorder in society is the result of disorder in the family.” St. Angela Merici
If…
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And — which is more — you’ll be a Man, my son!
From If by Rudyard Kipling
Kindness
“No one heals himself by wounding another.” St. Ambrose