A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.
Be patient in trials, watchful in prayer, and never cease working.
The one you are looking for is the one who is looking.
Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.
It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look.
St. Francis of Assisi was hoeing his garden when someone asked what he would do if he were suddenly to learn that he would die before sunset that very day. "I would finish hoeing my garden," he replied.