Inspirational thoughts

“Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, the last of life, for which the first was made.” — Robert Browning

“Now that I knew fear, I also knew it was not permanent. As powerful as it was, its grip on me would loosen. It would pass.” “The Round House” by Louise Erdrich

“The laws of [physics]…seem themselves to be the product of exceedingly ingenious design…[there] is for me powerful evidence that there is something going on behind it all…It seems as though somebody has fine-tuned nature’s numbers to make the Universe…The impression of design is overwhelming.”

“If everybody minded their own business, the world would go around a great deal faster than it does.”- Lewis Carroll 

“I don’t know what my future holds, but I know who holds my future.”
Tim Tebow

“Christ has no body now but mine. He prays in me, works in me, looks through my eyes, speaks through my words, works through my hands, walks with my feet and loves with me here.” St. Teresa of Avila

“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”  C.S. Lewis

“Man, though made of body and soul, is a unity. Through his very bodily condition he sums up in himself the elements of the material world. Through him they are thus brought to their highest perfection and can raise their voice in praise freely given to the Creator. For this reason man may not despise his bodily life. Rather he is obliged to regard his body as good and to hold it in honor since God has created it and will raise it up on the last day.”

–Pope Saint Paul VI 

“It’s your obligation to speak the truth, and everyone can either take it or leave it. But truth must be in us. We live in such a poverty of truth today.” Mother Angelica

“The world wants things fixed in a microwavable minute, but God uses a crockpot.”
Father Leo Patalinghug