God shall be my hope, my stay, my guide and lantern to my feet (Shakespeare, Henry V)
Quotes
If I were reincarnated I would wish to be returned to earth as a killer virus to lower human population levels. (Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh) Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it (God)
O supreme and inaccessible light, O complete and blessed truth, how far you are from me, even though I am so near to you!…O God, let me know you and love you so that I may find my joy in you; and if I cannot do so fully in this life, let me at least[…]
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die (G.K. Chesterton)
Those who sincerely say ‘Jesus, I trust in You’ will find comfort in all their anxieties and fears. There is nothing more man needs than Divine Mercy – that love which is benevolent, which is compassionate, which raises man above his weakness to the infinite heights to the holiness of God. (Pope Saint John Paul[…]
The New Testament writers speak as if Christ’s achievement in rising from the dead was the first event of its kind in the whole history of the universe. He is the ‘first fruits,’ the pioneer of life,’ He has forced open a door that has been locked since the death of the first man. He[…]
But once Christ is risen, the gravitational pull of love is stronger than that of hatred; the force of gravity of life is stronger than that of death. Perhaps this is actually the situation of the Church in every age, perhaps it is our situation? It always seems as if she ought to be sinking,[…]
The author of life you put to death, but God raised him from the dead; of this we are witnesses. (Saint Peter, Acts 3:15)
The flesh of Jesus was disfigured (defotmis) in dying, but of supreme beauty in rising again. This beautiful flower of the root of Jesse, who had blossomed in the Incarnation and withered in the Passion, now blossomed anew in the Resurrection, so as to become our crown of beauty. (Saint Bonaventure)
Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song (Pope Saint John Paul II)