A Quote for the Day

Music can be a prayer that rises from the heart filled with love, and joins with that Everlasting Love, the very Source of such a human love that leaps from the heart like a small child filled with the joy of seeing her beloved Father for the first time in her life.

Only the heart that knows the deepest of sorrows can truly experience the deepest of joys. Surface happiness makes the heart grow shallow.

Children need only a single word such as "baby," and a peculiar way of saying it themselves, to laugh aloud in the next 10-15 minutes, or until another source of happiness catches their attention. They simply repeat the word in that unique way of saying it, again and again, milking it with all the joy they can get from it. They have the simplest need to make themselves happy, and are very efficient in enjoying that source of joy. Things that adults have learned to forget to their sad misfortune.

Discontent is a symptom of underlying self-determinism, a soul that is blind to God's will but troubled with the growing frustrations of not getting what he wants to get or with the exciting prospects of going for the coveted prize. A person who follows the will of God contends himself in whatever lot in life that God makes certain to him to be his to live. His peace and joy stem not from the achievement of personal goals but in knowing that he is following the Will of His God.

In simple things comes the deepest of happiness, the joy of the soul.

We give most sincerely when we do not expect even a 'Thank You' for our gifts. The joy of giving comes from a heart overflowing with so much love for others, it simply rejoices in the chance and the privelege of being able to give to others. And no personal credit for such love fits an ever-joyful giver, but a gratitude towards God for chosing us as His instruments in making others experience His love for them.