REFLECTIONS

Proud-pied April, dressed in all his trim, Hath put a spirit of youth in everything.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

I believe that God is in me as the sun is in the colour and fragrance of a flower – the Light in my darkness, the Voice in my silence.

HELEN KELLER

Resurrection is contagious, and free for the taking. It is everywhere visible and available for those who have learned how to see, how to rejoice, and how to neither hoard nor limit God’s ubiquitous gift.

RICHARD ROHR

Easter is the only time when it’s perfectly safe to put all of your eggs in one basket.

EVAN ESAR

I still believe in Santa, the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy and true love. Don’t even try to tell me different.

DOLLY PARTON

If I really wanted to pray I’ll tell you what I’d do. I’d go out into a great big field all alone or in the deep, deep woods and I’d look up into the sky—up—up—up—into that lovely blue sky that looks as if there was no end to its blueness. And then I’d just feel a prayer.”

L.M. MONTGOMERY, ANNE OF GREEN GABLES

The best motto to think about is not waste things. Don’t waste electricity. Don’t waste paper. Don’t waste food. Live the way you want to live but just don’t waste. Look after the natural world and the animals in it and the plants in it too. This is their planet as well as ours. Don’t waste them.

SIR DAVID ATTENBOROUGH

Let your feet follow your heart until you find your place of resurrection.

CELTIC SAYING ABOUT PILGRIMAGE

Worrying is carrying tomorrow’s load with today’s strength – carrying two days at once. It is moving into tomorrow ahead of time. Worrying doesn’t empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.

CORRIE TEN BOOM

If I am hungry, that is a material problem; if someone else is hungry, that is a spiritual problem.

PAUL FARMER We can never take peace for granted. We must always work for peace, pray for peace and make sacrifices for peace. All of us have the capacity to build peace by our words, our actions and our attitudes to others. We choose to sow peace or conflict, love or hate, to build up, or to tear down, to heal or to hurt, to forgive or to resent, to soothe or to inflame.

ARCHBISHOP EAMON MARTIN, ASKING FOR PRAYER FOR THE PEOPLE OF UKRAINE, FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.

MARGARET MEAD

Talent is like electricity. We don’t understand electricity. We use it.

MAYA ANGELOU

“Why did you do all this for me?” he asked. “I don’t deserve it. I’ve never done anything for you.” “You have been my friend,” replied Charlotte. “That in itself is a tremendous thing.”

E.B. WHITE, CHARLOTTE’S WEB