Inspirational thoughts

“The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.” —Leo Tolstoy

“Thank you, women who are mothers! You have sheltered human beings within yourselves in a unique experience of joy and travail. This experience makes you become God’s own smile upon the newborn child, the one who guides your child’s first steps, who helps it to grow, and who is the anchor as the child makes its way along the journey of life.” St. John Paul II

“We live in a sensate age. We are no longer governed by Faith, we are no longer governed by reason. We are governed by feelings.“ Venerable Fulton J. Sheen

“What embitters the world is not excess of criticism, but an absence of self-criticism.” GK Chesterton

“All the wealth in the world cannot be compared with the happiness of living together happily united.” ― Blessed Margaret d’Youville

“God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.” — Saint Augustine

“The Scriptures are shallow enough for a babe to come and drink without fear of drowning and deep enough for a theologian to swim in without ever touching the bottom.” -Saint Jerome

“To love means this: to serve and to give one’s life.  To serve, that is, not to put our own interests first: to clear our systems of the poison of greed and competitiveness; to fight the cancer of indifference and the worm of self-referentiality; to share the charisms and gifts that God has given  us.  Specifically, we should ask ourselves, “What do I do for others?”  That is what it means to love, to go about our daily lives in a spirit of service, with unassuming love and without seeking any recompense.”

POPE FRANCIS

“Intense love does not measure, it just gives.” — Saint Theresa of Calcutta