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@0B@"I love little children, and it is not a slight thing when they, who
are fresh from God, love us."
@0F@   - Charles Dickens@0E@

@0A@Anxiety is the realization that I might not reach the rung on the
opinion-ladder which I have just set for myself.@0E@

@0B@"Rich and poor have a common bond.  The LORD is the maker of them all."
@0F@   - Proverbs 22:2@0E@

@0A@My meaningfulness is here: it is enough that I am of value to someone
today.@0E@

@0B@He knows not and he KNOWS he knows not: he is a child, teach him.
He knows not but he knows not he knows not: he is a fool, shun him.
He knows but he knows _NOT_ he knows: he is asleep, awaken him.
He knows and he _knows_ he knows:  he is a leader, follow him.
   @0F@ - Confucious@0E@

@0F@My only habit should be to have none. Because I did it this way
before should be suffient reason not to do it this way today.@0E@

@0B@A mind, like an umbrella, does not function well when closed!@0E@

@0F@Confession is often an avoidance of change. If I confess it I don't
have to accept the responsibility of changing it.@0E@

@0B@"Love without sacrifice is sentimentality, sacrifice without love
is communism."
@0F@   - Fulton Sheen@0E@

@0A@Why do I judge my day by how much I have "accomplished"?@0E@

@0A@He who does not study history, is doomed to repeat it!@0E@

@0B@"He who shuts his ear to the cry of the poor, will himself also call
and not be heard!"
@0F@   - Proverbs 21:13@0E@

@0A@My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.@0E@

@0B@"Avoid a wicked man, for he breeds only evil, lest you incur a
lasting stain"
@0F@   - Sirach 11:33@0E@

@0A@If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process.@0E@

@0B@If you have God, you have everything.
If you haven't got God, nothing else will do!@0E@

@0B@Big people talk about ideas
Average people talk about things...
Small people talk about other people!@0E@

@0B@All things are changing.  God alone is changeless!
@0F@  - St Teresa of Avila@0E@

@0B@May the Composer of all things fashion your life into a melody,
beautiful and sonorous, that will one day become a grace note
in the Eternal Symphony.@0E@

@0B@_Unborn_ women have the right to choose!@0E@

@0B@I can only follow Him by means of the traces He has left behind Him.
But they're so full of light, so full of fragrance.
@0F@ -  St Therese of Lisieux@0E@

@0F@When I have listened to my mistakes I have grown.@0E@

@0B@Use your ears oftener than your tongue.  One often repents of having
spoken and scarcely ever of having been silent!
@0F@  - St Anthony of Padua@0E@

@0B@When I see that I am doing it wrong there is a part of me that wants
to keep on doing it the same way anyway and even starts looking for
reasons to justify the continuation.@0E@

@0B@The great folly of worldlings consists of putting the thought of
death far from them and acting as though they were to live forever.
@0F@St Anthony of Padua@0E@

@0B@Think how the trellised rose... unhampered climbs.
More beautiful for having known restraint.
And how the saint...Beauty's ordained precision to fulfill,
moves in the orbit of God's Holy Will!
@0F@ -   Alfred Barrett, SJ@0E@

@0F@Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes and I
am left the same as I began.@0E@

@0B@Unless the Lord builds the house, they labor in vain, who build it...
It is vain for you to rise early, or put off your rest
for He gives to His beloved in sleep.
@0F@ - Psalm 127@0E@

@0B@God walks straight on a crooked path..@0E@

@0B@Abortion stills a human heart.@0E@

@0B@The fool says in his heart, "There is no God"
@0F@ - Psalm 14:1@0E@

@0F@I am what I started with, and when it is all over I will be all that
is left of me.@0E@

@0B@"I have called you by name; you are Mine
...When you walk through fire, you shall not be burned.."
@0F@ - Isaiah 43:1ff@0E@

@0A@Possibly the greatest crime we commit against each other is this
daily show of "normality".@0E@

@0B@And millions, who, humble and nameless.. the straightway path trod
Some call it consecration and others call it God.
@0F@  - Edna St Vincent Millay@0E@

@0B@Consider how the lilies of the field grow - they neither toil nor spin
Yet I say to you, Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these!
@0F@ - Matt 6:28@0E@

@0A@Dishonest people believe in words rather than reality.@0E@

@0B@"To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely."
@0F@   - Jorge Luis Borges@0E@

@0B@He prayeth best who loveth best.. all things both great and small
@0F@ - from "The Ancient Mariner"@0E@

@0F@The problem will be solved when I realize that happiness is a present
attitude and not a future condition.@0E@

@0B@Angel of God, my guardian dear, to whom His Love commits me here..
Ever this day, be at my side. To light and guard, to rule and guide.@0E@

@0B@Hate the sin but love the sinner.@0E@

@0B@My heart is restless.. until it rests in Thee.
@0F@ - St Augustine@0E@

@0F@The bully in me always bullies in the name of principle or in the
name of rules.@0E@

@0B@You are much more like an organ note which floats down the nave of
life's Cathedral so long as God, who is at the console, keeps His Finger
on the key.@0E@

@0F@To battle my feelings is to condemn myself for having them and it's
as if the condemned part of me reacts by getting nasty.@0E@

@0B@If Christ rode to Heaven on a cross, we should not desire to ride
there in a plush lined Cadillac!@0E@

@0B@"I will face my fear.  I will let my fear pass around me and through
me.  And when I turn to face fear's path, nothing will be left.
Only _I_ will remain."
@0F@   - from The Litany of Fear by Frank Herbert@0E@

@0B@He whose soul is flat, the sky
Will cave in on him by and by.
@0F@ - Edna St Vincent Millay@0E@

@0B@For waiting hearts, a hunger.  A thirst no time can fill;
For restless feet a desperateness, to climb a Holy Hill.
@0F@ - Sr M. Jean Dorcy, O.P. @0E@

@0F@Unless I accept my faults I will most certainly doubt my virtues.@0E@

@0B@Seek God in the midst of men.. God is present in His Living Creatures,
Just as truly as in the quiet of green leaves blowing in a convent garden.
@0F@ - Sr. M. Faith Schuster, OSB@0E@

@0F@Generosity feels at least as rewarding as greed.@0E@

@0B@"Do you but hold fast to His Dear Hand and He will lead you safely
through all things..."
@0F@ - St Francis de Sales@0E@

@0B@"Don't try to rush things.  For the cup to run over, it must first be
filled."
@0F@   - Antonio Machado@0E@

@0B@"Two harmful excesses: to exclude reason..and to admit nothing but reason."
@0F@   - Blaise Pascal@0E@

@0F@When I examine my fantasies for the values they express I am
surprised at the pettiness.@0E@

@0B@"You would think it rude to leave a friend alone who came to visit you;
why, then, must God be neglected?"
@0F@   - Brother Lawrence@0E@

@0B@The sins of man offend God, the virtues of man offend man.@0E@

@0F@Fear is static that prevents me from hearing my intuition.@0E@

@0B@Study the generations long past and understand.  Has anyone hoped
in the LORD and been disappointed?
@0F@ - Sirach 3:10@0E@

@0B@Be a hero, save a whale.  Save a baby, go to jail!@0E@

@0B@"Love without suffering is Heaven, suffering without love is hell
and suffering with love is purgatory."
@0F@   - Fulton Sheen@0E@

@0F@If I have to ask myself if I am hungry, I'm not.@0E@

@0B@"You can have no greater sign of a confirmed pride than when you
think you are humble enough"
@0F@   - William Law@0E@

@0B@"Death is only a horizon; and a horizon is nothing save the limit
of our sight."
@0F@   - Rossiter Worthington Raymond@0E@

@0B@Jesus blest, Jesus blest, led me to unending rest.
Joyfully myself I found, heaven bound, heaven bound.
@0F@  - Mary Schweitzer Baker <1918-1987>@0E@

@0F@When you give your entire interest, attention and love to the thing
at hand, it becomes the most interesting thing in the world.@0E@

@0B@Call no man happy before his death, for how he ends, a man is known.
@0F@ - Sirach 11:28@0E@

@0B@"...some used the native tradition of the Colt, or Smith and Wesson,
...those admirable American instruments ... so well designed to end the
American dream when it becomes a nightmare, their only drawback is the mess
they leave for relatives to clean up."
@0F@   - Ernest Hemingway, writing of the Stock market crash in 1929@0E@

@0A@I  am noticing that when I am bored I think I am tired of my
surroundings but I am really tired of my thoughts.@0E@

@0B@"Hell exists for those who refuse to love Love.  The absence of Love
is one of its greatest punishments"
@0F@   - Fulton Sheen@0E@

@0B@"Because I have been thirsty, I will dig a well that others may drink."
@0F@   - Arabian proverb@0E@

@0A@To withdraw from an argument may not make you the winner, but what
you have saved is your own dignity and grace.@0E@

@0B@The beginning of human pride is to desert the Lord and to turn one's
heart away from one's Maker.
@0F@   - Sirach 10:12@0E@

@0F@The criticism that hurts the most is the one that echoes my own self-
comdemnation.@0E@

@0F@Nothing on earth consumes a man more completely than the passion of
resentment.@0E@

@0B@"If God opens the door of understanding to you under the form of
deprivation, deprivation itself becomes a gift."
@0F@   - Ibn Abbad of Ronda@0E@

@0B@"I could not say I believe.  I know!  I have had the experience of
being gripped by something stronger than myself, something that people
call God."
@0F@   - Karl Jung@0E@

@0B@"It is not the one with many possessions who is rich, but the one who
has no needs."
@0F@Philoxenos@0E@

@0B@"When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why
the poor have no food, they call me a Communist."
@0F@   - Dom Helder Camara@0E@

@0F@He that is discontented and disturbed is tossed about with various
suspicions; he is neither quiet himself, nor does he allow others to
be quiet. @0E@

@0B@"The soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine
through."
@0F@   - Edna St Vincent Millay@0E@

@0B@"In a dark time, the eye begins to see."
@0F@   - Theodore Roethke@0E@

@0F@We blame little things in others and pass over great things in
ourselves.@0E@

@0B@Hatred stirs up disputes but love covers all offenses.
@0F@   - Proverbs 10:12@0E@

@0A@My peace of mind depends on overcoming my negative attitudes.@0E@

@0B@"We have a feeling that when this time comes to science, God with
His white beard will come down to earth, swinging a bunch of keys, and
will say to humanity: 'Closing time, Gentlemen.'"
@0F@   - Goncourt Brothers@0E@

@0F@The richest rewards come from helping others with no thought for
reward.@0E@

@0B@"Drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence but by
falling often"
@0F@   - Lucretius@0E@

@0F@I cannot change another person.  And I have no right to try.@0E@

@0B@"Prayer may not change things but it sure changes _you_ for things!"
@0F@   - Samuel M. Shoemaker@0E@

@0A@My ultimate contentment does not depend on having things work out my
way.@0E@

@0B@"The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up
blazing torches in the dark streets of life for others to see. The saint
is the one who walks through the dark paths of the world and _is_ a light."
@0F@   - Felix Adler@0E@

@0B@"One preaches well who lives well" said Sancho, "And that's all the
divinity I can understand."
@0F@    - Miquel de Cervantes@0E@

@0B@"Courage is the quality it takes to look at yourself with candor, your
adversaries with kindness, and your setbacks with serenity."
@0F@   - William Arthur Ward@0E@

@0A@The power to reason can be dulled when we fail to detach ourselves
from the emotional content of a problem.@0E@

@0B@"He who loves correction, loves knowledge but he who hates reproof
is stupid."
@0F@   - Proverbs 12:1@0E@

@0F@There is no such thing as "best" in a world of individuals.@0E@

@0B@"Man is powerless to resist evil if he does not recognize it as such"
@0F@   - Fulton Sheen@0E@

@0B@"He who has a _why_ to live for can bear with almost any _how_"
@0F@   - Nietzsche@0E@

@0F@I stopped trying to force myself to eliminate my faults when I found
it didn't work. Then I realized I had to replace them with something
better.@0E@

@0B@"Be gentle to all and stern with yourself."
@0F@   - St Teresa of Avila@0E@

@0B@"Good judgement comes from experience and experience - well, that
comes from poor judgement."
@0F@   - Simon Buckner@0E@

@0B@"People need loving the most when they deserve it the least."
@0F@   - John Harrigan@0E@

@0B@"Sometimes a way seems right to a man but the end of it leads to death!"
@0F@   - Proverbs 14:12@0E@

@0B@"Angels can fly because they take themselves so lightly"
@0F@   - G. K. Chesterton@0E@

@0B@"Forgetfulness of self is remembrance of God"
@0F@   - Abu Yazid Al-Bistami@0E@

@0B@"The three things God most detests: a scowling face, obstinacy in
wrongdoing and too great a confidence in the power of money."
@0F@   - St Ita@0E@

@0F@A  generalization is an assertion that what is true for me is also
true for others.@0E@

@0B@"Lord, let me get through today and I shall not fear tomorrow."
@0F@   - St Philip Neri@0E@

@0B@Ego means -E-asing -G-od -O-ut.
@0F@   - Bishop Fulton Sheen@0E@

@0B@"It is with the smallest of brushes that the artist paints the most
exquisitely beautiful pictures."
@0F@   - Brother Andre Bessette@0E@

@0B@"The greatest assassin of life is haste, the desire to reach things
before the right time, which means overreaching them."
@0F@   - Juan Ramon Jimenez@0E@

@0F@Whenever I find myself arguing for something with great passion, I
can be certain I'm not convinced.@0E@

@0B@"What is the taboo of the 20th century which corresponds to the
19th century taboo on sex?  The taboo of death."
@0F@   - Fulton Sheen@0E@

@0A@If someone criticizes me I am not any less because of that. It is not
a criticism of me but critical thinking from him.@0E@

@0B@They will be treacherous, reckless, pompous lovers of pleasure rather
than of God as they make a pretense of religion but negate its power.
             @0F@2 Tim 3:4-5@0E@

@0A@If we do not exist as individuals then our relationship does not
exist.@0E@

@0B@Do not lay up for yourself an earthly treasure.  Moths and rust corrode,
thieves break in and steal.  Make it your practice instead to store up
heavenly treasures. @0F@Matt 6:19-20@0E@

@0A@I pray that I may not be tempted, by indifference of selfishness, to
withhold from others the help I have received.@0E@

@0B@If you want to avoid judgement, stop passing judgement. @0F@Matt 7:1@0E@

@0B@The man who claims to be in the light, hating his brother all the while,
is in darkness even now. @0F@1 John 2:9@0E@

@0F@Troubles are opportunities to grow. To make us better, not bitter.@0E@

@0B@Blest too are the sorrowing for they shall be consoled. @0F@Matt 5:4@0E@

@0F@I  have learned silence from the talkative; tolerance from the
intolerant and kindness from the unkind. I should not be ungrateful
to those teachers.@0E@

@0B@If you forgive the faults of others, your Heavenly Father will
forgive you, yours.  @0F@Matt 6:14@0E@

@0F@Prayer is simply a reaching out to make contact with a Power greater
than ourselves.@0E@

@0F@We blame little things in others and pass over great things in
ourselves.@0E@

@0B@No man can serve two masters...you cannot give yourself to God and
money.  @0F@Matt 6;24@0E@

@0F@In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments -- there are
consequences.@0E@

@0B@Look at the lilies of the field, they neither toil nor spin. Yet
Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.  @0F@Matt 6:28ff@0E@

@0F@Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.@0E@

@0F@Let me not be quite so sure that my thinking is always correct.@0E@

@0B@If you with all your sins know how to give your children what is good,
how much more will your Heavenly Father give good things to anyone who
asks Him!
@0F@ Matt 7:11@0E@

@0F@If I knew what I was really like, chances are I'd like myself much
more than I really do.@0E@

@0F@When I react, I put the control of my peace of mind in the hands of
others.@0E@

@0B@Take My Yoke upon your shoulders and learn from Me from I am gentle and
humble of heart.
@0F@  Matt 11:29@0E@

@0F@Anticipatory anxiety tends to create the thing that you're afraid of.@0E@

@0F@When virtue recognises itself as virtue it immediately becomes vice.@0E@

@0B@Whoever welcomes one such child for my sake, welcomes Me.
@0F@ Matt 18:5@0E@

@0F@The Golden Key to this thing called life is rigorous self-honesty.@0E@

@0F@Freedom is to not want anything at any time for yourself.@0E@

@0B@Abortion is a woman's wrong.@0E@

@0F@Anything that is worth doing is an end in itself, anything that is
done as a means to an end is self-robbery.@0E@

@0B@The whole point of this life is the healing of the heart's eye through
which God is seen.
@0F@St Augustine@0E@

@0B@Our God is infinite Love and overcomes all weakness.
@0F@St Therese of Lisieux@0E@

@0B@Yahweh said "I Myself will go with you and I will give you rest."
@0F@Exodus 33:14@0E@

@0B@Nature lives by the breath of God's omnipotence.
@0F@Blessed Contardo Ferrini@0E@

@0B@God loves us because there is something in us which is beautiful..
@0F@Francis Baur, OFM@0E@

@0B@When you seek truth, you seek God, whether you know it or not!
@0F@Edith Stein@0E@

@0B@God far exceeds all words that we can here express
@0F@Angelus Silesius@0E@

@0B@We must find our real selves, not in the effect we have on others but
in our own soul which is the principle of all our acts.
@0F@Thomas Merton@0E@

@0B@The church is not a fortress, set apart from the city, but a follower of
Jesus, who loved, worked, struggled and died in the midst of the city.
@0F@Oscar Romero@0E@

@0B@In silence God is heard, in silence worshiped best.
@0F@Angelus Silesius@0E@

@0B@O God who knows everything and whose love is perfect, take this life
into Your Hand, do what I long to do, but cannot.
@0F@Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh@0E@

@0B@The world is filled with the Absolute. To see this is to be made free.
@0F@Teihard de Chardin@0E@

@0B@In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.@0E@

@0B@Pilgrims sleep in tents and sometimes cross deserts but the thought of
their homeland makes them forget everything else.
@0F@Charles de Foucauld@0E@

@0B@Our Lord is so good and merciful, that to obtain Heaven, we only need to
ask God in our hearts.
@0F@St. Benedict Labre@0E@

@0B@Do not be mistaken-our God is not severe and will not repay evil with evil.
@0F@St Therese of Lisieux@0E@

@0B@The Cross, O Lord, shows me the difference that is between You and me
while it takes it away.
@0F@John Henry Newman@0E@

@0B@If you love peace, then hate injustice, tyranny and greed - but hate
these things in yourself, not in another.
@0F@Gandhi@0E@

@0B@A good person is a prayer.
@0F@St Catherine of Sienna@0E@

@0B@The race is not always to the swift but to those who keep on running.@0E@

@0B@Can it be that the world is but the great word
That speaks the meaning of our joy?
@0F@Robert Penn Warren@0E@

@0B@God loves us because we are lovable.
@0F@Francis Baur, OFM@0E@

@0B@A person's life should be as fresh as a river.  It should be the same
channel but a new water every instant.
@0F@Henry David Thoreau@0E@

@0B@The most beautiful CREDO is the one we pronounce in our hour of darkness.
@0F@Padre Pio@0E@

@0B@God does not refuse forgiveness when it is requested: God IS forgiveness.
@0F@Leonard Foley, OFM@0E@

@0B@Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.
@0F@2 Cor 3:17@0E@

@0B@A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
@0F@Joseph Joubert@0E@

@0B@There is no unbelief.  Whoever see 'neath the field of Winter snow
The silent harvest of the future grow, God's Power must know.
@0F@Edward Bulwer-Lytton@0E@

@0B@You foreigners see millions of stars and nothing beyond.
We Arabs see only a few stars, and God.
@0F@an Arab Sheik@0E@

@0B@I did not ask for success. I asked for wonder and You gave it to me.
@0F@Abraham Joshua Heschel@0E@

@0B@Devout souls find many hardships but in accepting them, they convert
bitterness into sweetness.
@0F@St Francis de Sales@0E@

@0B@It is not prayers that count but prayerfulness.
@0F@David Steindl-Rast@0E@

@0B@Just as a song only lasts as long as the singer sings,
so I exist only as long as God wills me to exist.
@0F@Maurice Nassan, SJ@0E@

@0F@Every job is a self portrait of the person who did it.@0E@

@0B@The soul does not die by sin but by impenitence.
@0F@G.K. Chesterton@0E@

@0B@So from now on, there must be no more lies.  You must speak the truth
to one another, since we are all parts of one another.
@0F@Ephesians 4:25-26@0E@

@0F@The harder you work, the luckier you get.@0E@

@0B@Heaven is the soul finding its own perfect personality in God.
@0F@Phillips Brooks@0E@

@0B@Jesus burns with the desire to come into your heart.
@0F@St Therese of Lisieux@0E@

@0B@No matter how 'useless' or 'insignificant' my life may appear to be,
I am the only person who can accomplish what God has in mind for me.
@0F@Robert J. Kreyche@0E@

@0B@Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.
@0F@Elie Wiesel@0E@

@0B@We must seek God in error and forgetfulness and foolishness.
@0F@Meister Eckhart@0E@

@0B@Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could.
@0F@Ralph Waldo Emerson@0E@

@0B@Because God loves us, we give up our sin, and not the other way around.
@0F@Francis Baur, OFM@0E@

@0F@An obstacle is not the end.  It's a new beginning.@0E@

@0B@You aspire to great things? Begin with little ones.
@0F@St Augustine@0E@

@0B@Uphold the rights of the poor, the needy.
@0F@Proverbs 31:8-9@0E@

@0B@Jesus said to them, "Where is your faith?"
@0F@Luke 8:25@0E@

@0B@There is no unbelief. Whoever plants a seed beneath the sod
and waits to see it push away the clod. He trusts in God.
@0F@Edward Bulwer-Lytton@0E@

@0B@Jesus said, "Let the little children come to Me, for it is to such as
these that the Kingdom of God belongs."
@0F@Mark 10:14-15@0E@

@0B@Love God, serve God. Everything is in that.
@0F@St Clare of Assisi@0E@

@0B@All day I hope in you because of Your Goodness, Yahweh.
@0F@Psalms 25:6@0E@

@0B@Prayer is the passionate desire for union with God.
@0F@Catherine de Hueck Doherty@0E@

@0B@A generous heart, kind speech and a life of service and compassion
are things which renew humanity.
@0F@Buddha@0E@

@0B@Do not store treasures for yourselves on earth where moths and woodworms
destroy them and thieves can break in and steal. But store up treasures for
yourself in Heaven...where your treasure is, there will be your heart also.
@0F@Matt 6:19-21@0E@

@0B@Occupy your minds with good thoughts or the enemy will fill them with bad
ones.
@0F@St Thomas More@0E@

@0F@Altitude determines attitude.@0E@

@0B@Let us not despair. Let us not lose faith in people
and certainly not lose faith in God.
@0F@Martin Luther King@0E@

@0B@At the hour of death, in the twinkling of an eye, Our Lord will cause
rich fruits to ripen on the tree of your soul.
@0F@St Therese of Lisieux@0E@

@0B@My Salvation shall last forever and My Justice have no end.
@0F@Isaiah 51:6@0E@

@0B@God, You will never leave me to face my perils alone.
@0F@Thomas Merton@0E@

@0B@We do not come to Grace. Grace comes to us.
@0F@M. Scott Peck@0E@

@0B@When we are filled with fear, God is always near.
@0F@William Arthur Ward@0E@

@0B@Joy is the most infallible sign of the presence of God.
@0F@Leon Bloy@0E@

@0A@You are as big as whatever it is that you love, and as small as
whatever it is that annoys you.
@0F@Robert Anton Wilson. @0D@(Contributed by DAVID BROOME)@0E@

@0B@In everyone there is a tremendous hunger for God, despite all
appearances.
@0F@Mother Teresa of Calcutta@0E@

@0B@The fullness of joy is to behold God in everything.
@0F@Julian of Norwich@0E@

@0B@Of courtesy it is much less than courage of heart or holiness
Yet in my walks it seems to me, the Grace of God is in courtesy.
@0F@Hilaire Belloc@0E@

@0A@Growing old is mandatory. Growing up is optional.
@0D@(Contributed by PAUL SAVAGE)@0E@

@0B@May the poor by seeing us, be drawn to Christ and invite Him into
their lives.
@0F@Mother Teresa of Calcutta@0E@

@0B@A mother's love should never allow her to destroy her own children.
@0F@Mother Teresa of Calcutta@0E@

@0B@Feeding the hungry is greater work than raising the dead.
@0F@St John Chrysostom@0E@

@0B@Late have I loved Thee, O Beauty so ancient and so new.
@0F@St Augustine@0E@

@0B@Prayer gives meaning to the whole of life, at every moment, and
in every circumstance.
@0F@Pope John Paul II@0E@

@0B@You never desert those who seek You, Yahweh!
@0F@Psalms 9:10@0E@

@0B@Our need draws us to God in prayer. Our gratitude sends us to
others in service.
@0F@William Arthur Ward@0E@

@0B@God will forgive those who have forgiven.  That is the law.
@0F@St. John Vianney@0E@

@0A@My friends are my estate.
@0F@Emily Dickenson@0E@

@0B@Grace strikes us when we are in great pain and restlessness.
@0F@Paul Tillich@0E@

@0B@To dispose a soul to action, we must upset its equilibrium.
@0F@Eric Hoffer@0E@

@0B@He is no fool who gives up what he cannot keep, to gain what he
  cannot lose.@0F@
   Anonymous Protestant Missionary@0E@

@0A@The only way OUT is THROUGH.@0F@
  Henry David Thoreau@0D@  (Contributed by PETER BROWN)@0E@

@0A@The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence
  and Obsolescence.
  @0D@(Contributed by ROBERT PULASKI)@0E@

@0A@I work to Live.... I don't Live to work.@0D@
  (Contributed by MICHAEL MASTERS, Conceptual CAD Design BBS)@0E@

@0B@Man has dominated Man to his injury.@0F@
  Ecclesiastes 8:9    @0D@(Contributed by SARAH DALHOVER)@0E@

@0B@Few people hate the Catholic religion but many people hate what they
   mistaken believe in the Catholic religion and if what is hated were
   REALLY the Catholic religion, Catholics would hate it too!@0F@
 - Bishop Fulton Sheen@0E@

@0B@He forgets our all offenses and shall we not love Him?@0F@
 - St Peter Julian Eymard@0E@

@0B@Then dwell continually in the thought of God's inexhaustible
  Goodness to you.@0F@
 - St Peter Julian Eymard@0E@

@0B@Great are the works of the Lord; to be pondered by all who
  love them.@0F@
  - Psalm 111:2@0E@

@0A@ABORTION: one wounded, one dead.@0E@

@0B@Blessed too, are the sorrowing for they shall be consoled.@0F@
  - Matt 5:4@0E@

@0B@And if your light is darkness, how deep will the darkness be!@0F@
  - Matt 6:23@0E@

@0A@Life is like a ladder - every step is either up or down!@0D@
   (contributed by Justin Ruff)@0E@

@0A@A Ship that sails backwards, will never see the sunrise!@0D@
   (Contributed by MIKE TAYON)@0E@

@0B@Desire to see God, Be fearful of losing God, and find joy in everything
that leads to God. If you act this way, you will always live in peace.@0F@
   - St Teresa of Avila@0E@

@0B@It is by design that Jesus concealed the last day from us so we would
be on the lookout for Him every day of our lives.@0F@
  - St Augustine@0E@

@0B@There is no charity without patience. Neither is there patience
without charity.@0F@
  - St Catherine of Sienna@0E@

@0B@In judging others you condemn yourself, since you behave no differently
from those you judge.@0F@
  - Romans 2:1@0E@

@0B@The mind of the Scriptures can never be exhausted. The Bible is like
a well without a bottom.@0F@
  - St John Chrysostom@0E@

@0B@The mind which presumes to believe that there is no such thing as a
miracle, is itself, a miracle.@0F@
  - M. Scott Peck, M.D.@0E@

@0B@Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalized.@0F@
  - G.K. Chesterton@0E@

@0B@When we have traveled all ways, we shall come to the end of all ways,
who says "I am the Way."@0F@
  - St Ambrose@0E@

@0B@We must walk consciously only partway toward our goal and then,
leap in the dark to our success.@0F@
  - Henry Thoreau@0E@

@0B@God's Mercy is like an unleashed torrent; it bears away all hearts
in its flood.@0F@
  - St John Vianney@0E@

@0B@It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of
our being free!@0F@
  - Abraham Joshua Heschel@0E@

@0B@The cure for boredom is curiosity, there is no cure for curiosity@0F@
   @0D@(contributed by anonymous user of CheeseWhiz BBS)@0E@

@0B@God is always near you and with you, and should not be left alone.@0F@
    - Brother Lawrence@0E@

@0B@It is better to be quiet, and be thought a fool, than to open
    your mouth and prove it!@0D@   (contributed by MIKE TAYON)@0E@

@0B@Always be wanting peace with all people, and the holiness without
    which no one can see the Lord.@0F@
    - Hebrews 12:14@0E@

@0B@The beginning of Divine Wisdom is the serenity acquired from generosity
of soul and forebearance with human infirmities.@0F@
    - St. Isaace of Syria@0E@

@0B@In this short life that only lasts an hour..
How much-how little- is within our power.@0F@
    - Emily Dickinson@0E@

@0B@Sometimes we suffer because God loves us enough to give us the freedom
to make mistakes.@0F@
    - John R. Wimmer@0E@

@0B@It is not the magnitude of our actions, but the amount of love that is
put into them that matters.@0F@
    - Mother Teresa@0E@

@0B@Cause and effect are closer than we realize; thoughts and actions are
nearer than we imagine.@0F@
    - William Arthur Ward@0E@

@0B@We do not know that our life is more important to the Living God than
it is to us, ourselves.@0F@
    - Thomas Merton@0E@

@0B@We think our happiness is for ourselves alone and do not realize that it
is also God's Happiness@0F@
    - Thomas Merton@0E@

@0B@There is nothing we can steal from God because before we can think of
stealing it, it has already be given.@0F@
    - Thomas Merton@0E@

@0B@We were born to love, we live to love, and we will die to love still more.@0F@
    - St. Joseph Cafasso@0E@

@0B@When someone steals another's clothes, we call him a thief.  The money
which you hoard up belongs to the poor.@0F@
    - St Basil the Great@0E@

@0B@Many times we fail to get recognition or thanks for our efforts.  Make
allowance for them in Christ's Name.  The important thing is that you have
done your part.@0F@
    - James Keller, M.M.@0E@

@0B@If you want to see the brave, look for those who can forgive.@0F@
    - The Bhagavad Gita@0E@

@0F@If you want to see the heroic, look at those who can love in return for
hatred.@0F@
    - The Bhagavad Gita@0E@

@0B@Only after the Last Judgement will Mary get any rest; from now until then,
she is much too busy with her children.@0F@
    - St John Vianney@0E@

@0B@God, in the middle of all my troubles, You console me and make me happy.@0F@
    - Psalms 94:19@0E@

@0B@Each of use will one day, be judged by our standard of life - not by our
standard of living.@0F@
    - William Arthur Ward@0E@

@0B@We will be judged by our measure of giving - not by our measure of wealth.@0F@
    - William Arthur Ward@0E@

@0B@We will be judged by our simple goodness - not by our seeming greatness.@0F@
    - William Arthur Ward@0E@

@0B@O Great Spirit, Make us always ready to come to You with clean hands
and straight eyes, so when life fades, at the fading sunset, our spirits
may come to You without shame.@0F@
    - From a Native American Prayer@0E@

@0B@My one word, my synonym, for happiness?  I'll tell you. It's appreciation.
@0F@  - Gary Cooper@0E@

@0B@The eyes of the world see no further than this life.  The eyes of the
Christian see deep into eternity.@0F@
    - St John Vianney@0E@

@0B@If pride made demons out of angels, there is no doubt that humility
could make angels out of demons.@0F@
    - St John Climacus@0E@

@0B@A person will either give up prayer or stop sinning.@0F@
    - St Alphonsus Liguori@0E@

@0B@The good that people do can be obvious; but even when it is not, it cannot
be hidden forever.@0F@
    - 1 Timothy 5:24-25@0E@

@0B@We are called to love without limit, to care without measuring...@0F@
    - Paula Ripple@0E@

@0B@Like love, trust can only be kept by being given away.@0F@
    - Catherine de Hueck Doherty@0E@

@0B@Everyone who commits sin is a slave.@0F@
    - John 8:34@0E@

@0B@To choose what is difficult, all one's days, as if it were easy,
that is faith.@0F@
    - W.H. Auden@0E@

@0B@One should never deny the body what is due to it, that the body itself
may not hinder what is due to the soul.@0F@
    - St Peter Alcantara@0E@

@0B@In peace I lie down, and fall asleep at once, since You alone, Yahweh,
make me rest secure.@0F@
    - Psalms 4:8@0E@

@0B@I worry until midnight, and from then on I let God worry. @0F@
    - Blessed Louis Guanella@0E@

@0B@Prayer converts the enemy into a friend and is thus the beginning of
a new relationship.@0F@
    - "Compassion" McNeill, Morrison and Nouwen (Image Books 1983)@0E@

@0B@Work is a collaboration, trembling with love, which we offer to the
hands of God.@0F@
     - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin@0E@

@0B@Learning IS life, a supreme experience of living, a climax of existance.@0F@
     - Abraham Joshua Heschel@0E@

@0B@Do not desire to be other than you are, but desire to be very well what
you are.@0F@
     - St Francis de Sales@0E@

@0B@Who except for God can give you peace?  Has the world ever been able
to satisfy the heart?@0F@
     - St Gerald Majella@0E@

@0B@In everything you do, remember your end, and you will never sin.@0F@
     - Ecclesiasticus 7:36@0E@

@0B@The most wonderful thing about the saints is that they were human.
Still they went on doggedly blundering toward heaven.@0F@
     - Phyllis McGinley@0E@

@0B@Those people lack everything who think they lack nothing. @0F@
     - St Bernard of Clairvaux@0E@

@0B@Faith declares what the senses do not declare, but not the contrary of
what they see. It is above them, not contrary to them.@0F@
     - Blaise Pascal@0E@

@0B@Violence is the last revenge of the incompetent.@0F@
     - Isaac Asimov@0D@  (contributed by DAN BLANCK)@0E@

@0B@What you don't mean....won't hurt you!@0F@
     - Anon  @0D@(contributed by MARK APPLEBY)@0E@

@0B@Give me a heart as big as the universe!@0F@
     - St Francis Cabrini@0E@

@0B@I always forget how important the empty days are.@0F@
     - May Sarton@0E@

@0B@Lord, save me in spite of myself, for Christ's sake.@0F@
     - Francois Fenelon@0E@

@0B@Almost anything is easier to get into than get out of.@0F@
     - Agnes Allen's Law - Dickson  @0D@(contributed by DAVID BROOME)@0E@

@0B@The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.@0F@
     - Mahatma Gandhi@0E@

@0B@In Heaven we will know each other by a glance of the soul.@0F@
     - St Elizabeth Seton@0E@

@0B@If the vessel of our soul is tossed with winds and storms, let us awaken
the Lord who reposes in it and who will quickly calm the sea.@0F@
     - Brother Lawrence@0E@

@0B@There's a 50 percent chance of anything - either it happens or it doesn't.
     - Barne's Law of Probability - Dickson @0D@(contributed by DAVID BROOME)@0E@

@0B@One who can love oneself loves all people@0F@
     - St Anthony of Egypt@0E@

@0B@The soul should treat the body as a child,
correcting it without hurting it.@0F@
     - St Francis de Sales@0E@

@0B@Wisdom makes but a slow defense against trouble, though at last a sure one.@0F@
     - Oliver Goldsmith@0E@

@0B@Keep cool but do not freeze.@0F@
     - A Peter Hollis  @0D@(contributed by DAVID BROOME)@0E@

@0B@Imagine thinking that your ENEMY can do you more damage than your EMNITY@0F@
     - St Augustine@0E@

@0B@God takes us at our word.@0F@
     - Pacifique Roy@0E@

@0B@We find rest in those we love and we provide a resting place for those
who love us.@0F@
     - St Bernard of Clairvaux@0E@

@0B@Anyone who fails to love can never have known God because God is love.@0F@
     - John 4:8@0E@

@0B@Some bad people on the rise - they're saving their own skins by ruining
other people's lives@0F@
     - Morrissey 1989@0D@  (Contributed by BRIAN EDICK)@0E@

@0B@Think about today, for tomorrow, yesterday will have already occured.@0F@
     - Wayne Wright  @0D@(Contributed by Wayne Wright)@0E@