December 2011
63 posts
A Little Rant On Love
What is it that you can say you believe about love? Is it wonderful? Is it amazing? Is it painful?
Can you say its the whole reason for your existence?
Yes. True. All of the above.
But I’ve been seeing some things lately and I just have to make my comments on them.
Human love is painful. The love of God never is. People will break your heart. People will do stupid things. People will...
“May you be content knowing you are a child of God. Let this presence settle into...”
– St. Therese of Lisieux (via diaryofaday-dreamer)
Going to take a break from life for a while.
See ya. I’ll get back on eventually.
“I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can...”
– Marilyn Monroe
“You breathe
When your heart is broken you plant seeds in the cracks
And you...”
– Andrea Gibson (via andawayawaysheflew)
“All the darkness of the world cannot extinguish the light of a small candle.”
―...”
– (via journalofanobody)
“The soul must always be inclined ‘not to the easiest thing, but to the hardest;...”
– St. John of the Cross
Ancilla Domini: Reasons I love St. Joseph: →
ancilladomini:
-The dude was HUMBLE. Seriously, picture this: you’re betrothed to a girl (and in your culture betrothal basically = marriage.) and she goes to visit her cousin and comes back pregnant. woah.
But Joseph’s a good guy. He knows she could be stoned for this, and he doesn’t want her to be exposed to…
“The soul that is attached to anything however much good there may be in it, will...”
– St John of the Cross
“Remember, you are what you are in the eyes of God, and nothing else.”
– St Francis of Assisi (via romanticcatholicism)
“What does it profit you to give God one thing if he asks of you another?...”
– St. John of the Cross (via calflickkid)
Went to a Mass today for a nun's first profession...
And that was just the first thing on my list of super awesome things I did today.
And all of them were suuuper Catholic.
What is my life?
Oh yea,
AWESOME.
I will keep my head up.
In the words of the great band, Queen:
“The show must go on!”
Heartbreak is no match for Jesus. No matter how crushed you feel, He will crush your feelings of being crushed.
I found the perfect guy. He found his perfect girl. I was so close. But there is something out there that will make him happier than I would.
I know this will all be gone soon anyway. I actually think...
“He loves you always, even when you don’t feel worthy. When not accepted by...”
– Blessed Mother Teresa (via diaryofaday-dreamer)
“Let yourselves be charmed by Christ, the Infinite who appeared among you in...”
– Pope John Paul II (via amsilly)
“May God break my heart so completely that the whole world falls in.”
– Mother Teresa (via serialstranger)
“Cast yourself into the arms of God and be very sure that if he wants anything of...”
– St. Philip Neri (via thefullnessofthefaith)
“We were together. I forget the rest.”
– Walt Whitman (via intervals)
“It has made me better loving you…it has made me wiser, and easier, and brighter....”
– Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady (via versolalto)
On how to be lovely by Audrey Hepburn →
beautifulandmysterious:
“For attractive lips, speak words of kindness. For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people. For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry. For beautiful hair, let a child run their hands through it once a day. For poise, walk with the knowledge that you will never walk alone. People, more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and...
“Deep roots are not reached by frost.”
– J.R.R. Tolkien (via andawayawaysheflew)
“In the life of the body a man is sometimes sick, and unless he takes medicine,...”
– St. Thomas Aquinas (via catholiclifeguard)
Suggestions?
Anyone have any suggestions of good Catholic books I could read? Some books on theology or apologetics or saints or anything you guys have read that is Church related that you liked. :)
Suggestions please?