Inspirational thoughts

“Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.” St. John of the Cross

“Once the process [of conversion] is begun and continues…you are continually turning inward toward God and away from your own egocentricity…you have to see this selfish side of yourself in order to turn away from it.” Flannery O’Connor

“To have courage for whatever comes in life – everything lies in that.” St. Teresa of Avila

“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” –Robert Louis Stevenson

“Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.”

David Mitchell,  Cloud Atlas

“In our own case we accept excuses too easily; in other people’s, we do not accept them easily enough.” CS Lewis

“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
– Oscar Wilde

“There is immeasurably more left inside than what comes out in words.” Fyodor Dostoevsky

“The door on which we have been knocking all our lives will open at last.” C.S. Lewis

“There is something in the human spirit that will survive and prevail, there is a tiny and brilliant light burning in the heart of man that will not go out no matter how dark the world becomes.” Leo Tolstoy