Some people, in order to discover God, read books. But there is a great book: the very appearance of created things. Look above you! Look below you! Read it. God, whom you want to discover, never wrote that book with ink. Instead, He set before your eyes the things that He had made. Can you ask for a louder voice than that?
Augustine of HippoTags: science catholicism catholic catholic-author
Miracles are not contrary to nature but only contrary to what we know about nature.
Augustine of HippoTags: science miracles catholicism catholic-author
If you believe what you like in the Gospel, and reject what you don't like, it is not the Gospel you believe, but yourself.
Augustine of HippoTags: truth bible catholicism catholic catholic-author
Soeur Marie Emelie"
Soeur Marie Emelie
is little and very old:
her eyes are onyx,
and her cheeks vermilion,
her apron wide and kind
and cobalt blue.
She comforts
generations and generations
of children,
who are
"new"
at the convent school.
When they are eight,
they are already up to her shoulder,
they grow up and go into the world,
she remains,
forever,
always incredibly old,
but incredibly never older...
She has an affinity with the hens,
When a hen dies,she sits down on a bench and cries,
she is the only grown-up, whose tears
are not frightening tears.
Children can weep without shame,
at her side...
Soeur Marie Emelie...
her apron as wide and kind
as skies on a summer day
and as clean and blue.
Tags: children catholic-author comforting
I wanted to shut my mind, that my thoughts might close
on my own peace, I wanted to close
the peace of my love in my heart
like dew in a dark rose."
From "Philip Speaks
Tags: love peace catholic-author rose
Powerful to alleviate, to delay, to camouflage, though money is, in the end it lets us down.
Caryll HouselanderTags: money catholic-author
Most people know the sheer wonder that goes with falling in love, how not only does everything in heaven and earth become new, but the lover himself becomes new. It is literally like the sap rising in the tree, putting forth new green shoots of life.
Caryll HouselanderTags: love catholic-author falling-in-love
They said I would never live. I lived. They said I would never think. I think. They said I would never walk. I walked. They said I would never dance, but I never danced anyway.
Benedict J. GroeschelTags: inspirational christianity spiritual spirituality catholic-author
An acquaintance merely enjoys your company, a fair-weather companion flatters when all is well, a true friend has your best interests at heart and the pluck to tell you what you need to hear.
E.A. BucchianeriTags: wisdom truth friend friendship friends advice true-love people human-nature criticism christian flattery catholic caring catholic-author true-friends companion gadfly acquaintances tough-love wise-sayings caring-for-others constructive-criticism hard-truths
It was not curiosity that killed the goose who laid the golden egg, but an insatiable greed that devoured common sense.
E.A. BucchianeriTags: wisdom gold curiosity human-nature proverbs common-sense greed faults sad-but-true catholic-author avarice riches gadfly wise-sayings deadly-sins greediness greedy-people mammon
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