IN A HOLE 

Quote for the Day - Feast of the Epiphany - January 2, 2011


"We think we must climb to a certain height of goodness before we can reach God. But ... if we are in a hole the Way begins in the hole. The moment we set our face in the same direction as His, we are walking with God."


Helen Wodehouse, Inner Light, 1, 1931

HAPPY  NEW  YEAR!

Quote for the Day and Happy New Year - January 1, 2011

"That night, that year,
Of now done darkness I wretch lay wrestling with (my God!) my God."

Gerard Manley Hopkins [1844-1889], No. 64, Carrion Comfort, line 13

THIS  DAY 

IT  TOO 

WILL COME!

Quote for the Day - December 31.  2010


"Every year without knowing it I have passed the day."


William Stanley Merwin [1927-] For the Anniversary of My Death [1967]

WHAT  ME WORRY

Quote for Today - December 30,  2010


"When I look back on all these worries I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had a lot of troubles in his life, most of which never happened."


Sir Winston Churchill

CHARACTER

Quote for the Day  December 29,  2010


"Character is what you are in the dark."


Dwight L. Moody

A CHILD'S LAUGH

Quote for Today - December 28, 2010


"One laugh of a child will make the holiest day more sacred still."


Robert G. Ingersoll

PICTURE  FOREVER

Quote for Today - Feast of St. John the Evangelist - December 27,  2010

"And I John saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband."

Bible text from the Book of Revelation 21: 2

Painting on top: View of Toledo by El Greco [1541-1597]. The scene might be Toledo just beflore lightning and storm. The painting is oil on canvast, 1597, The Metropolitan Museum of New York