Inspirational thoughts

“If one by one we counted people out, for the least sin, it wouldn’t take us long to get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.” Mark Twain

“There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.” Jane Austen

“What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.” — John Steinbeck

“You can’t stay in your corner of the forest waiting for the others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.”
– AA Milne (Winnie The Pooh)

“Only God can see what is in the bottom of our hearts; we are half-blind.”

-St Therese Of Lisieux

“I will not allow myself to be so absorbed in the whirlwind of work as to forget about God. I will spend all my free moments at the feet of the Master hidden in the Blessed Sacrament.”

• St Faustina

“If you believe what you like in the gospel, and reject what you don’t like, it is not the gospel you believe but yourself.”

-St Augustine

“Since it is likely that, being men, they would sin every day, St. Paul consoles his hearers by saying ‘renew yourselves’ from day to day. This is what we do with houses: we keep constantly repairing them as they wear old. You should do the same thing to yourself. Have you sinned today? Have you made your soul old? Do not despair, do not despond, but renew your soul by repentance, and tears, and Confession, and by doing good things. And never cease doing this.” St. John Chrysostom

“Each of us is the one who must live in such a way as to make it evident that she knows she is loved. A woman who knows she is loved can do anything. This is a woman’s strength. If a woman feels unloved, she is weak. She still can do, but not in the way that she can if she knows she is loved. Nothing is too hard to a woman who knows she is loved. Well…we are! We are loved deeply by God. We must deepen our knowledge of that.” Mother Mary Francis