Pray, n:. To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.

Day of wrath that day of burning, Seer and Sibyl speak concerning, All the world to ashes turning.

Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not keep what is entrusted to them.

Up in the heights of the evening skies I see my City of Cities float In sunset's golden and crimson dyes: I look and a great joy clutches my throat! Plateau of roofs by canyons crossed: windows by thousands fire-furled-- O gazing, how the heart is lost in the Deepest City in the World.

Let guilty men remember, their black deeds Do lean on crutches made of slender reeds.

When you were born, you were crying and everyone around you was smiling. Live your life so that when you die, you're smiling and everyone around you is crying.

Give place to your betters.

...place is not big enough for both me and...

No mere man since the Fall, is able in this life perfectly to keep the Commandments.

Love fails, only when we fail to love. -J. Franklin.

Feast of William Law, Priest, Mystic, 1761 Commemoration of William of Ockham, Franciscan Friar, Philosopher, Teacher, 1347 Commemoration of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Priest, Scientist, Visionary, 1955 Read whatever chapter of Scripture you will, and be ever so delighted with it -- yet it will leave you as poor, as empty and unchanged as it found you unless it has turned you wholly and solely to the Spirit of God, and brought you into full union with and dependence upon Him.

Sincere diplomacy is no more possible than dry water or wooden iron.

The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.

Not what we give, but what we share,-- For the gift without the giver is bare.

I have a strong suspicion . . . that much that passes for constant love is a golded- up moment walking in its sleep.

So little done, so much to do.

It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place the world is when one is playing golf.

Love and relationships are truly one of the most paradoxical aspects of being human. For it is in love that we find the greatest of strengths and the deepest of sorrows. Love can seem to be so fleeting and unachievable yet it remains well within our reach if we only learn how to embrace it's power. To experience true love, we must be willing to open ourselves up and sacrifice part of our heart and part of our soul. We must be willing to give of ourselves freely, and we must be willing to suffer. It is only when we expose our inner selves to the white hot flame of rejection, that love can burn so brightly as to join to souls, melding the two into one, creating a bond that joins forever. It is from this bond that we draw strength eternal and power ever lasting. It is in this thing that we call love that we find the means to achieve greatness, both in ourselves and in our lives.

The Dog and the Shadow A DOG, crossing a bridge over a stream with a piece of flesh in his mouth, saw his own shadow in the water and took it for that of another Dog, with a piece of meat double his own in size. He immediately let go of his own, and fiercely attacked the other Dog to get his larger piece from him. He thus lost both: that which he grasped at in the water, because it was a shadow, and his own, because the stream swept it away.

Immature love: I love you because I need you.Mature love; I need you because I love you.