"We are travellers…not yet in our native land" – St. Augustine
“God is our clothing. In His love, He wraps and holds us. He enfolds us for love and will never left us go. We are wrapped and held in the embrace of God’s all-pervasive love for each of us, the love that calls us by name, that makes us precious in God’s sight”
– Julian of Norwich
“Earth’s crammed with heaven, and every common bush afire with God; But only he who sees, takes off his shoes…”
– Elizabeth Barrett Browning
“Where there is no repentance, forgiveness is only permission by another name.”
– Gene Wolfe, Pirate Freedom
“The average American is physically, biologically, psychologically and neurologically unable to do anything worthwhile before he has a cup of coffee. And that goes for prayer too. Even sisters in convents whose rules were written before electric percolators were developed would do well to update their procedures. Let them have coffee before meditation”
– Fulton J. Sheen, The Priest Is Not His Own
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I said to the man who stood at the Gate of the Year,
‘Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown.’
And he replied, ‘Go out into the darkness, and put your hand into the Hand of God.
That shall be better than light, and safer than a known way.’
– Minnie Haskins, “The Gate of the Year” (1908)
“A new year is at hand. We cannot tell what it will bring. If it brings peace, how thankful we shall all be. If it brings us continued struggle we shall remain undaunted.”
– King George VI, Royal Christmas Broadcast 1939
Christians, like snowflakes, are frail, but when then stick together they can stop traffic
– Vance Havner
