Inspirational thoughts

“Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts.” Great Expectations, Charles Dickens

“Disorder in society is the result of disorder in the family.”  St. Angela Merici

“There are plenty of ways to practice mortification! Just patiently endure cold, heat, sickness, troubles, people, happenings, and so forth.” St. John Bosco

“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