Gratitude is a vaccine, an antitoxin, and an antiseptic. This is a most searching and true diagnosis. Gratitude can be a vaccine that can prevent the invasion of a disgruntled attitude. As antitoxins prevent the disastrous effects of certain poisons and diseases, thanksgiving destroys the poison of faultfinding and grumbling. When trouble has smitten us, a spirit of thanksgiving is a soothing antiseptic.

Anyone can build a house: we need the Lord for the creation of a home.

May my life be like a great hospitable tree, and may weary wanderers find in me a rest.

Faith without thankfulness lacks strength and fortitude.

Let us sing even when we do not feel like it, for in this way we give wings to heavy feet and turn weariness into strength.

...Prayer is not always petition, sometimes it is just communion. It is the exquisite ministry of friendship.

It is possible to evade a multitude of sorrows by the cultivation of an insignificant life.