Inspirational thoughts

“The bee is more honored than other animals, not because she labors, but because she labors for others.”  St. John Chrysostom

“I must listen as God speaks to my soul through good thoughts, inspirations, and intuitions.” Mother Angelica

“Even if we have thousands of acts of great virtue to our credit, our confidence in being heard must be based on God’s mercy and His love for men. Even if we stand at the very summit of virtue, it is by mercy that we shall be saved.”  St. John Chrysostom

“Patience is adjusting your time to God’s time.” Mother Angelica

“God wants you to be in the world, but so different from the world that you will change it. Get cracking.”  Mother Angelica

“Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you.” ArchBishop Fulton J. Sheen

“You can’t ever tell what’s going to hurt people.”
― Evelyn Waugh, A Handful of Dust

“You must not abandon the ship in a storm because you cannot control the winds….What you cannot turn to good, you must at least make as little bad as you can.” St. Thomas More

“Aesop says in a fable that everyone carries a double wallet on his shoulders, and into the one that hangs at his breast he puts other folk’s faults and he looks and pores over it often. In the other he puts all his own and swings it at his back, which he never likes to look in, although others that come behind him cast an eye into it sometimes.” St. Thomas More

“The suffering of this life not only can make our temperament more like the Divine Personality of Jesus, but it detaches us from this world. This Divine preparation opens our souls to the working and pruning of the Father.”  Mother Angelica