Inspirational thoughts

“What embitters the world is not excess of criticism, but an absence of self-criticism.” GK Chesterton

“All the wealth in the world cannot be compared with the happiness of living together happily united.” ― Blessed Margaret d’Youville

“God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.” — Saint Augustine

“The Scriptures are shallow enough for a babe to come and drink without fear of drowning and deep enough for a theologian to swim in without ever touching the bottom.” -Saint Jerome

“To love means this: to serve and to give one’s life.  To serve, that is, not to put our own interests first: to clear our systems of the poison of greed and competitiveness; to fight the cancer of indifference and the worm of self-referentiality; to share the charisms and gifts that God has given  us.  Specifically, we should ask ourselves, “What do I do for others?”  That is what it means to love, to go about our daily lives in a spirit of service, with unassuming love and without seeking any recompense.”

POPE FRANCIS

“Intense love does not measure, it just gives.” — Saint Theresa of Calcutta

“There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.” GK Chesterton

 

“We will either accuse ourselves or excuse ourselves.” St. John Vianney

“You must ask God to give you power to fight against the sin of pride which is your greatest enemy – the root of all that is evil, and the failure of all that is good. For God resists the proud.” – St. Vincent de Paul

“A Christian martyrdom is never an accident, for Saints are not made by accident.” ― T. S. Eliot