Give us grace to listen well.

Peace is the first thing the angels sang.

And help us, this and every day, to live more nearly as we pray.

Sweet is the infant's waking smile, And sweet the old man's rest-- But middle age by no fond wile, No soothing calm is blest.

Once you make up your mind never to stand waiting and hesitating when your conscience tells you what you ought to do, and you have got the key to every blessing that a sinner can reasonably hope for.

Blest are the pure in heart, for they shall see our God. The secret of the Lord is theirs; Their soul is Christ's abode.

When you find yourself overpowered, as it were, by melancholy, the best way is to go out and do something.

If the Church of England were to fail, it would be found in my parish

New every morning is the love Our waking and uprising prove, Through sleep and darkness safely brought, Restored to life and power and thought.

Why should we faint and fear to live alone,Since all alone, so Heaven has willed, we die?Nor even the tenderest heart, and next our own,Knows half the reasons why we smile and sigh.

Sun of my soul! Thou Saviour dear, It is not night if Thou be near.

Not knowing the name of the tree, I stood in the floodof its sweet scent.

Four grey walls, and four grey towers, Overlook a space of flowers, And the silent isle imbowers The Lady of Shalott.

I've already done everything there is to do. Now it's just a matter of doing what I love to do.

Our children tremble in their teen-age cribs, whirling off on a thumb or a motorcycle.

Reach me a gentian, give me a torch! let me guide myself with the blue, forked torch of this flower

The most important appointment Pope Francis has made is the appointment of the Australian cardinal, George Pell, as the Vatican's financial overseer.

I don't think having a My Chemical Romance action figure will make a kid start his own band, I like to think it will make him save children from a burning building.

Sound is the first thing that we tune into.

The dumbest people I know are those who know it all.

I think anything is possible to anyone who dreams, dares, works and never gives up.