I said to the man who stood at the Gate of the Year, 'Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown.' And he replied, 'Go out into the darkness, and put your hand into the Hand of God. That shall be better than light, and safer than a known way.' (by Minnie Louise Harkins 1875-1957, quoted by King George VI - Christmas 1939)

Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see. ~CS Lewis

Aim at heaven and you get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither. ~CS Lewis

There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away. ~Henry Ward Beecher

It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit. ~Robert Louis Stevenson

"Inventive man" has invented nothing - nothing "from scratch." If he has produced a machine that in motion overcomes the law of gravity, he learned the essentials from the observation of birds. ~Dorothy Thompson

"If I discover within myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world." ~CS Lewis

"The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved." ~Mother Teresa

I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck. ~Emma Goldman

Before you criticise someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticise them, you're a mile away and have their shoes - anon

"If this thing doesn't come out right, don't worry about me, I'm just going on higher." ~Michael Anderson

"In the skies today we saw destruction and tragedy. Yet farther than we can see, there is comfort and hope. In the words of the prophet Isaiah, "Lift your eyes and look to the heavens. Who created all these? He who brings out the starry hosts one by one and calls them each by name. Because of His great power, and mighty strength, not one of them is missing." The same Creator who names the stars also knows the names of the seven souls we mourn today. The crew of the shuttle Columbia did not return safely to Earth; yet we can pray that all are safely home."