Inspirational thoughts

“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

“The man who fears to be alone will never be anything but lonely, no matter how much he may surround himself with people. But the man who learns, in solitude and recollection, to be at peace with his own loneliness, and to prefer its reality to the illusion of merely natural companionship, comes to know the invisible companionship of God.” Thomas Merton

”A thinker reverses roles and sees the perspectives of others.”

“What will be the crown of those who, humble within and humiliated without, have imitated the humility of our Saviour in all its fullness!”  St. Bernadette

”The greatest obstacle in the apostolate of the Church is the timidity or rather the cowardice of the faithful.”