November Quotations

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

-Chinese proverb

Afflictions are the steps to Heaven.

-St Elizabeth Ann Seaton

Remember this:  All suffering comes to an end.

-Meister Eckhart

We cannot get to Heaven on a featherbed.

-St. Thomas More

A Friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.

-Jacquie

In the twilight of life, God will not judge us on our earthly possessions & human successes but on how well we have loved.

-St. John of the Cross

I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.

-Louisa May Alcott

We must learn how to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

-Martin Luther King, Jr

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

-George Elliot

Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.

-Elisabeth Kubler Ross

Where there is a great love, there are always miracles.

-Willa Cather

Tell me, I will forget.  Show me, I will remember.  Involve me, and I will understand.

-Chinese Proverb

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Be good Christians, or your journey will serve no purpose. Only by good example can you change the world.

-Blessed Padre Pio

Jesus is honey in the mouth, music in the ear, and a shout of joy in the heart.

-St. Bernard of Clarvauix

The function of freedom is to free somebody else.

-Toni Morrison

Nothing in life is accidental.  One who believes in accident does not believe in God.

-Alexander Yelchaninov

I don't think of all the misery, but all of the beauty that still remains.

-Anne Frank

If you want to see what your body will look like tomorrow, look at your thoughts today.

-Navajo Proverb

Have great hopes and dare to go all out for them.  Have tremendous expectations and believe in them.

-Norman Vincent Peale

And, finally, never lose hope.

-Rule of St. Benedict 4:74

All the way to Heaven is Heaven..

-St. Catherine of Siena

My God, my Father, I abandon myself into your hands; do with me what you will.  Whatever you may do with me, I thank you.

-From a prayer by Charles de Foucauld

Let the serenity of your spirit shine through your face.

-St. Peter Damain

Trust all things to Jesus, in the Blessed Sacrament and to Mary Help of Christians and you will see what miracles are.

-St. John Bosco

Whatever the course of our lives, we should receive them as the highest gift from the hand of God, in which equally reposed the power to do nothing whatsoever for us.  Indeed,  we should accept misfortune not only in thanks, but in infinite gratitude to Providence, which by such means, detaches us from an excessive love for Earthly things and elevates our minds to the celestial and divine.

-Gallileo

It is well to give when asked, but it is better unasked, through understanding.

-Kahlil Gibran