Marriage is a duel to the death which no man of honour should decline. (G.K. Chesterton)

For nothing so much wins love as the knowledge that one’s lover desires most of all to be himself loved. (Saint John Chrysostom, +407)

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.  (Edmund Hilary, born July 20, 1919)

On the third day the friends of Christ coming at day-break to the place found the grave empty and the stone rolled away. In...

You are young, and the Pope is old...But the Pope still fully identifies with your hopes and aspirations. Although I have lived through much...

If we wish to help our neighbour, we must reserve for ourselves neither place, nor hour, nor time.  (Saint Philip Neri, +1595)

Let us die, then, and enter into the darkness, silencing our anxieties, our passions and all the fantasies of our imagination. Let us pass...

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.  (G. K. Chesterton)

If we wish to attain a dwelling-place in his kingdom we shall not reach it unless we hasten there by our good deeds. Just...

God loved us before He made us; and His love has never diminished and never shall.  (Blessed Julian of Norwich, + ca. 1416)