Quiet Moment

It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved in our own home. Bring love into your…

Every day we are all called to become a “caress of God” for those who perhaps have forgotten their first caresses, or perhaps who never have felt a caress in their life. — Pope Francis 

Seeing the sun, the moon, and the stars, I said to myself, “Who could be the master of these beautiful things?” And I felt a great desire to see him, to know him, and to pay him homage. — St. Josephine Bakhita

O happy soul, who hast loved neither the world nor the things of the world apart from God! Happy soul, who, amid the world’s toil, hast chosen the one thing needful, that better part which can never be taken away! — Bl. John Henry Cardinal…

After Christ’s example I forgive my persecutors. I do not hate them. I ask God to have pity on all, and I hope my blood will fall on my fellow men as a fruitful rain. — St. Paul Miki

Virtue demands courage, constant effort, and, above all, help from on high. — St. John Vianney

Let your understanding strengthen your patience. In serenity look forward to the joy that follows sadness. — St. Peter Damian

Men by petitioning may merit to receive what almighty God arranged before the ages to give them. — St. Gregory I

, “Now, Master, you may let your servant go in peace, according to your word, for my eyes have seen your salvation, which you prepared in sight of all the peoples, a light for revelation to the Gentiles, and glory for your people Israel."…

The family is more sacred than the state, and men are begotten not for the earth and for time, but for heaven and eternity. — Pope Pius XI