Archived Weekly Thoughts

Great occasions for serving God come seldom.  Little ones surround us daily.  `St. Francis de Sales

There is an old saying:  Those who fail to plan actually plan to fail.

More than Conquerors?  St. Paul was emphatic.  "In all these things we are more than conqueoros through Him that loved us." (Roman 8:37).  Our Christian faith is unique.  Enjoy it.

For myself, I am an optimist. 

It does not seem to be much use being anything else. 

Winston Churchill  

Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, it became a butterfly.

(Old Proverb)

Good friends are like stars. You don't always see them but you know they are always there.

Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it: the tree is the real thing.  

-Abraham Lincoln

Singing Brook ~

Remember, the brook would lose its song if you took the rocks away.

The climax of St. Matthew's Gospel: Jesus says, "And remember, I am with you always to the end of time. 

St. Matthew 28:20

Love is not blind.  It is the only things that sees.

HARDENED STATE: Some minds are like concrete, all mixed up and permanently set.

Forgiveness...always goes beyond what is just and due.  It is not a matter of justice but an affair of grace.

-Richard A. Norris (Understanding the Faith of the Church)

Worship of God is the highest act of humankind and the greatest dynamic to good and honorable living.

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

- Aesop

We make our decisions; then our decisions make us.

-F. W. Boreham

Jesus Christ knows a parousia in every generation. In other words, each generation must come face to face with the mystery of Jesus, and in the attempt to define Jesus, it will define itself.

- Leonardo Boff (Faces of Jesus)
 

O wad some Power the giftie gie us ,To see ourselves as ithers see us

- from “To a Louse” by Robert Burns
 

It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.

-Confucius

Nine-tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.
                                                                                                                                                  - Theodore Roosevelt
 

If my hands are fully occupied in holding on to something, I can neither give nor receive.
                                                                                                                                                         - Dorothy Soelle
 

If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.
                                                                                                                                        - St. Clement of Alexandria
 

I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.

-Dwight D. Eisenhower (1959)

Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne and I have founded empires.

But upon what did we rest the creations of our genius?  Upon force.

 Jesus Christ founded his empire upon love; and at this hour millions of people would die for Him

- Napoleon Bonaparte

There is an old Amish saying that goes like this:

“We didn’t inherit the land from our fathers; we are borrowing it from our children.”

The essence of belief is the establishment of a habit.

                                                                          - Charles S. Pierce

Blessed are the flexible for they shall not be bent out of shape. 

-Ernest Smart

Faith sees the invisible, believes the incredible, and receives the impossible.

-Anonymous

I am a citizen, not of Athens or Greece, but of the world.

-Socrates

The power of hope upon human exertion and happiness is wonderful.

- Abraham Lincoln

The most powerful way of teaching truth is to show what it has done for you.

                                                                                                        - Henry Ward Beecher

Perfect joy is in the laying aside of self in peaceful love; to burst forth, this joy needs all your being.

- Brother Roger of Taizé

We should always be preaching the Gospel - use words if necessary.

-St. Francis of Assisi

What is prayer? Prayer is like quietly opening a door and slipping into the very presence of God - perhaps to petition or only to listen - just being in God's presence is prayer.

-Ernest Smart

 All that is divine in the world is brought into union with God.  This is the Sabbath and the true happiness of the universe.

-Abraham Joshus Heschel