True happiness is found in unselfish love, a love which increases in proportion as it is shared. There is no end to the sharing of love, &, therefore, the potential happiness of such love is without limit.
03428 – True Happiness
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03202 – Growing Slowly and Well
Remind me each day that the race is not always to the swift; that there is more to life than increasing its speed. Let me look upward into the towering oak and know that it grew great and strong because it grew slowly and well.
03087 – Prayer of an Anonymous Abbess
Lord, thou knowest better than myself that I am growing older and will soon be old. Keep me from becoming too talkative, and especially from the unfortunate habit of thinking that I must say something on every subject and at every opportunity. Release me from the idea...
02650 – The Chief Purpose of Life
So it may be said that the chief purpose of life, for any one of us, is to increase according to our capacity our knowledge of God by all the means we have, and to be moved by it to praise and thanks.
01867 – Gifts of Grace
The gifts of grace increase as the struggles increase.
01375 – Remaining Empty
Riches, both material and spiritual, can choke you if you do not use them fairly. For not even God can put anything in a heart that is already full. One day there springs up the desire for money and for all that money can provide--the superfluous, luxury in eating,...