Inspirational thoughts

“What is deferred is not avoided.”

“Your reward in heaven will make up completely for all your pain and suffering.” St. John Bosco

“No matter how just your words may be, you ruin everything when you speak with anger.” St. John Chrysostom

“There’s only one great evil in the world today. Despair.”
― Evelyn Waugh

“Physical idleness deteriorates the mind; spiritual idleness deteriorates the heart.”

ArchBishop Fulton J. Sheen

“Our memories are our own, and we cannot blame anything or anyone in the past for any pain dwelling there. If we open the door to them or keep hashing over past incidents in our minds, we have only ourselves to blame.”— Mother Angelica

“To pass from sadness to joy requires a birth, a moment of travail and labor, for no one ever mounts to a higher level of life without death to the lower.”

ArchBishop Fulton J. Sheen

“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.” ArchBishop Fulton J. Sheen

“Sometimes my worst day- one filled with pain and suffering- in the eyes of God, is my best day if I’ve born it cheerfully and I’ve born it with love.” Mother Angelica

“God asks little, but He gives much.” St. John Chrysostom