Inspirational thoughts

“The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of one’s ‘own,’ or ‘real’ life. The truth is of course that what one calls the interruptions are precisely one’s real life – the life God is sending one day by day.” CS Lewis

“We make our friends; we make our enemies, but God makes our next-door neighbor.” – G.K Chesterton

“Family is a life jacket in the stormy sea of life.”

J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

“I am sure that God keeps no one waiting unless he sees that it is good for him to wait.” CS Lewis

“The Blessed Virgin is like a good mother who, not content with looking after all her children in general, watches over each one separately.”  St. John Vianney

“Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart.” CS Lewis

“If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.” CS Lewis

“Love is never wasted, for its value does not rest upon reciprocity.”  CS Lewis

“The man who has never made a mistake has no need of an eraser; just so the man who has never done anything wrong has no need of a Redeemer.” Venerable Fulton J. Sheen