“What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.”

Pericles

“Come at once if convenient—if inconvenient come all the same.” Sherlock Holmes

“Where should I go?” -Alice. “That depends on where you want to end up.” – The Cheshire Cat.” – Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Caroll

“If we approach with faith, 
we too will see Jesus….; 
for the Eucharistic table 
takes the place of the crib.
Here the Body of the Lord is present, 
wrapped not in swaddling clothes 
but in the rays of the Holy Spirit.”

St John Chrysostom (347-407) Father & Doctor of the Church

“It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.”

• St. John Henry Cardinal Newman

“Climb mountains, not so the world can see you, but so you can see the world.”

— David McCoullough Jr.

“You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.” — Arthur Conan Doyle, The Man with the Twisted Lip

“With Christians, a poetical view of things is a duty. We are bid to color all things with hues of faith, to see a divine meaning in every event.”

• St. John Henry Cardinal Newman

“God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go through it, not without pain but without stain.” – C.S Lewis

“The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul…Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.” G.K. Chesterton