If all we've got to look forward to is disloyalty and treachery, why do we even make friends?" "Again, human nature. Hoping for the best is what drives us.
It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look.
Our hands imbibe like roots, so i place them on what is beautiful in this world. And I fold them in prayer, and they draw from the heavens light
Spiritual joy arises from purity of the heart and perseverance in prayer.
Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self.
Let us also love our neighbors as ourselves. Let us have charity and humility. Let us give alms because these cleanse our souls from the stains of sin. Men lose all the material things they leave behind them in this world, but they carry with them the reward of their charity and the alms they give. For these they will receive from the Lord the reward and recompense they deserve.
Make me an instrument of thy peace.
I don't do close-ups any more. I am better looking from the waist downwards.
I happen to hold a bachelor of science degree in geology. . . And my greatest contribution to the field of science is that I never entered it.
Coerced innocence is like an imprisoned lark,--open the door, and it is off forever. The bird that roams through the sky and the groves unrestrained knows how to dodge the hawk and protect itself; but the caged one, the moment it leaves its bars and bolts behind, is pounced upon by the fowler or the vulture.
In art there is compassion, in compassion there is humanity, with humanity there is generosity and love,' Peters said.