Inspirational thoughts

“I gave my whole heart up, for him to hold.”

Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales

‘If one by one we counted people out, for the least sin, it wouldn’t take us long to get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.’ ROBERT FROST

“To handle yourself, use your head. To handle others, use your heart.” Eleanor Roosevelt

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

“I’ve learned that something constructive comes from every defeat.”  (former Coach Tom Landry- Dallas Cowboys)

“It is best to learn to silence the faculties and to cause them to be still so that God may speak.” St. John of the Cross

“God is more pleased by one work, however small, done secretly, without desire that it be known, than a thousand done with desire that men know of them.” St. John of the Cross

“Take God for your spouse and friend and walk with him continually, and you will not sin and will learn to love, and the things you must do will work out prosperously for you.” St. John of the Cross

“The soul that is quick to turn to speaking and conversing is slow to turn to God.” St. John of the Cross

“God has to work in the soul in secret and in darkness because if we fully knew what was happening, and what Mystery, transformation, God and Grace will eventually ask of us, we would either try to take charge or stop the whole process.”  St. John of the Cross