The Thirsty Soul
When you are hungry, even the plain porridge smell so nice and fragrant. It taste so sweet and pleasant. ‘Like cool water to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country‘. This proverb is a...
View ArticleOur Lady Teaches Her Son
Our Lady Teaches Her Son God became Man, to remake his world; he became a little child, and I suppose he used to play games; I don’t think the Sacred Humanity would have been quite human if our Lord...
View ArticleSelf-Protrait
Franciscan Missionaries of Mary (FMM), House of Prayer and Formation,no.49, Holland Road. SELF-PORTRAIT By David Whyte It doesn’t interest me if there is one God or many gods. I want to know if you...
View ArticleQuotes About Books & Reading
Wear the old coat and buy the new book. ~ Austin Phelps We shouldn’t teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. ~ B. F. Skinner A great book should leave you with many experiences and...
View ArticleQuotes About Reading I
Read in order to live. ~ Gustave Flaubert Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life. ~ Mortimer J. Adler Learn as much by writing as by reading. ~ Lord Acton Today a reader, tomorrow a...
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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry. ~ Gaston Bachelard Reading is not a duty, and has...
View ArticleQuotes About Reading III
Learning to read has been reduced to a process of mastering a series of narrow, specific, hierarchical skills. Where armed-forces recruits learn the components of a rifle or the intricacies of close...
View ArticleQuotes About Books I
People die, but books never die. Beware of the man of one book. ~ Thomas Aquinas There is no friend as loyal as a book. ~ Ernest Hemingway Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind,...
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A good book is the purest essence of a human soul. ~ Thomas Carlyle Books, books, books had found the secret of a garret-room piled high with cases in my father’s name; Piled high, packed large,...
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We get no good By being ungenerous, even to a book, And calculating profits, – so much help By so much reading. it is rather when We gloriously forget ourselves and plunge Soul-forward, headlong, into...
View ArticleQuotes About Books IV
I’ve traveled the world twice over, Met the famous; saints and sinners, Poets and artists, kings and queens, Old stars and hopeful beginners, I’ve been where no-one’s been before, Learned secrets from...
View ArticleInspiration From God
This is really “Wind of Change“… You never know where the wind will blow in life… Can you see the wind? Just as I had finished my piece of work on “Master and Pupil“, Isaac awoke in the ‘cradle‘ saying...
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