“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

“Believe that He loves you. He wants to help you Himself in the struggles which you must undergo. Believe in His Love, in His exceeding love.” St. Elizabeth of the Trinity

“God dwells in our midst, in the Blessed Sacrament of the altar.” St. Maximillian Kolbe

“If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable, we must be content to creep along the ground, and never soar.” St. John Henry Cardinal Newman

“We consider Christmas as the encounter, the great encounter, the historical encounter, the decisive encounter, between God and mankind. He who has faith knows this truly; let him rejoice.” St. Paul VI

“When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.” – The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

“I have never known a person to have been truly devoted to St. Joseph and to have rendered him special honor without seeing him advance rapidly in virtue; because the holy patriarch assists with special care those who recommend themselves to him … should the reader not believe my words, I only ask him for the love of God to make a trial and he will experience for himself what a grace it is to recommend oneself to this glorious patriarch.” St. Teresa of Avila