We seek the love of our children, but we should not expect their gratitude – at least not until they are grown up. Parenting is a responsibility, not an obligation. We will make mistakes, sometimes the very mistakes that our parents made with us – but we remain parents out of love.

p. 118, the Celtic Spirit, Caitlin Matthews

I have fought the good fight,
I have finished the course,
I have kept the faith.

Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.

Father, I will that where I am, they also whom thou hast given me may be with me.
p. 74, Article VI, The Catechism of the Council of Trent

We hope that God’s world will become a better place, more hospitable to goodness, more hospitable to compassion, more hospitable to generosity, more hospitable to living together…

p. 22, The Book Of Joy

Discovering more joy does not … save us from the inevitability of hardship and heartbreak. In fact, we may cry more easily, but we will laugh more easily too. Perhaps we are just more alive. Yet as we discover more joy, we can face suffering in a way that ennobles rather than embitters. We have hardship without becoming hard. We have heartbreak without being broken.
p. 12, The Book of Joy, Archbishop Desmond Tutu

Salvation means the healing and rescue of a body that is brought back to the way it was intended.

p. 8, A surrendered yes, Rebekah Lyons

Without judging by appearances, look for the potential in those you meet.

p. 77, The Celtic Spirit, Caitlin Matthews

Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.

I am come to send fire on the earth; and what will I, if it already be kindled?