WORDS TO LIVE BY--and some just to enjoy!
gleaned over the years.......

"Each day we ought to offer our hearts to God as a rose with the dew still on it" (St Margaret)

"Entrust your past to the mercy of God; entrust your future to the providence of God. Live today in the love of God." (St Augustine)

"We crucify ourselves between two thieves: the regret of yesterday and the fear of tomorrow." (quoted by Archbishop Fulton Sheen)

"The measure of love is to love God without measure." (St Bernard)

"In His Will is our peace." (Dante)

"From sour-faced saints, O Lord, deliver us." (St Teresa of Avila)

"All the way to heaven is heaven; for Jesus said: I am the Way." (St Catherine of Siena)

"The purpose of the Christian life is the acquisition of the Holy Spirit." (St Seraphim of Sarov)

"Hope isn't hope until the situation is hopeless." (G. K. Chesterton)

"Alleluia! --- All my gashes cry!" (C.S. Lewis)

"There is only one sadness: not to be a saint." (Leon Bloy)

"Joy is the infallible sign of the Presence of God." (Leon Bloy)

"Wherever the Catholic doth shine;
There's dance and song and good red wine;
At least I've always found it so:
Benedicamus Domino!"
(Hillaire Belloc)

"If it can be celebrated, celebrate it!" (Carl Hoegerl, C.Ss.R.)

"The reason the angels can fly is that they take themselves so lightly." (G. K. Chesterton)

"Every family has its saint--the rest are martyrs!" (Spanish proverb)

"To live with the saints in heaven,
Now that's celestial glory.
To live with the saints on earth--
Now that's another story."
(Irish saying)

"Heaven for the climate. Hell for the company!" (German proverb)

"Jesus is the Lord of the impossible!" (Charles de Foucauld)

"All I know of tomorrow is that God's Providence will rise before the sun." (Lacordaire)

"Pray and you will be saved; do not pray and you will be lost." (St Alphonsus Ligouri)

"In the evening of our lives, we will be judged by love." (St John of the Cross)

"May God deny you peace---and grant you glory!" (Miguel de Unamuno)

"The glory of God in man fully alive." (St Irenaeus)

"Love your crooked neighbor with your crooked heart." (W. H. Auden)

"To live is to change and to be perfect is have changed much." (John Henry Newman)

"Nothing would be done at all if a man waited till he do it so well that no one could find fault with it." (John Henry Newman)

"It is not as a child that I confess Christ. My Hosanna comes forth from the crucible of doubt." (Dostoievsky)

"If I had anything at all to do with Church administration, I'd make all the new priests bishops, and if they showed any promise, I'd make them pastors!" (G. K. Chesterton)

"Many whom God has, the Church does not have. Many whom the Church does not have, God has." (St Augustine of Hippo)

"Christianity hasn't been tried and found wanting--but it has been found hard, and it hasn't been tried!" (Gilbert Keith Chesterton)

"What you are thunders so loud, I can't hear what you're saying." (Emerson)

"In essentiis, unitas; in dubiis, libertas; in omnibus, caritas."
"In essential things, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in all things, charity." (attributed often to St Augustine)

"You Christians will have to sing better songs, if I am to believe in your Savior; you will have to look more redeemed if I am to believe in your Redeemer." (Neitsche)

"There was a time when Christians wanted to be obedient and faithful. Lately we are content to be sensitive. Once we aspired to justice and righteousness. Our present concern is that we be kind. If kindness alone were enough there would have been no cross. Jesus would have formed a sensitivity group and urged us to share our feelings, or a support group where we could affirm each other. Knowing full well the limits of humanity, the seriousness of our sin, and the depths of evil, he formed the church and charted a different way." (William Wilimon).