In tribulations God enriches his beloved souls with the greatest graces... - ...a single "blessed be God," in adversity, is worth more than a thousand acts of thanksgiving in prosperity. - St. Alphonsus Liguori; Magnificat magazine; August, 2011; pp. 31… more »

'Do not worry about what will come next, you will discover it when it comes'. - St Symeon, the New Theologian (born in 949; died in 1022); quote can be found at http://www.orthodoxchristian.info/pages/Jprayer.html when i sent this quote out as a text (… more »

The friendship that can cease has never been real.  - Saint Jerome (i couldn't find the original source, but i did a web search with the actual quote and got 2,370,000 references!  here's one of them: http://www.angelfire.com/mn/caybear2/friendquotes.ht… more »

We are at our worst if we fall into despair; but we are at our best if humbled we cry to G-d for help. -Fulton J. Sheen; Way to Inner Peace, p. 189 Today i felt despair.  it's funny, it didn't even cross my mind to ask G-d for help!  here i am, a guy w… more »

If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives; be kind anyway.  - part of a poem entitled "Anyway," originally entitled "Paradoxical Commandments" written by Kent M. Keith In a book compiled by Lucinda Vardey, Mother Teresa: A Sim… more »

Loneliness is the feeling that you are being deprived of something that is central to what I would call the “human spirit.” ... Solitude is not loneliness; it is something that you might even choose because you find it useful for discovering what you wa… more »

The first time I went to Mass, in trembling and fear, I was shocked to see people kneeling.  In the middle of Los Angeles, in the middle of the day... right out there in the open, for anyone who wandered in to see, they were asking for help...  - Heathe… more »