March 13

“Think a little less of your sorrows and more of your joys, for the joys will make you grateful, and gratitude is in itself one of the most beautiful pleasures of the soul. And being grateful, you can take this blessing (‘The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all’) to yourself, and make it yours, for part of the grace of the Lord Jesus is to have a grateful heart.”

STOPFORD BROOKE

“Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges. We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them ‘curses’”.

GEORGE ELIOT [pen-name of Mary Ann Evans]

“The shadows God sends are few, those we make for ourselves are many.”

“In all things throughout the world the men who look for the crooked will see the crooked, and the men who look for the straight will see the straight.”

RUSKIN