"Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones. And when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake."
Victor Hugo, 1802-1885
I want to live in a city.
"Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
William Morris
"What is capable of restoring enthusiasm and confidence, what can encourage the human spirit to rediscover its path, to raise its eyes to the horizon, to dream of a life worthy of its vocation - if not beauty?"
Pope Benedict XVI
"It is the act of forgiveness that opens up the only possible way to think creatively about the future at all."
Father Desmond Wilson
"If we hold tightly to anything given to us, unwilling to let it go when the time comes to let it go or unwilling to allow it to be used as the Giver means it to be used, we stunt the growth of the soul."
Jim Elliot
"Last evening, dinner at the N’s. The happy reality of a family, its beauty, its goodness. We did not have any important or serious discussions. The children played the piano. Everybody felt ‘good’ quite genuinely. The family does not have a goal, is not pragmatic. The family is a source, it is life, and out of life appear goals. I came home after that evening somehow bathed in that joy, that ‘goodness.’"
Father Schmemann
