Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.

Feast of the Holy Cross Teach me. O God, to use all the circumstances of my life to-day that they may bring forth in me the fruits of holiness rather than the fruits of sin. Let me use disappointment as material for patience: Let me use success as material for thankfulness: Let me use suspence as material for perseverance: Let me use danger as material for courage: Let me use reproach as material for longsuffering: Let me use praise as material for humility: Let me use pleasures as material for temperance: Let me use pains as material for endurance.

Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe.

When something (an affliction) happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.