#ow

I know what it feels like to be an outsider. ↗

— Judith Light

#i #know #like #outsider

Turning back the pages of my sweet shattered dream, I wonder if she'll ever do the same; And the thing that I call living is just being satisfied With knowing I've got no one left to blame. ↗

— Gordon Lightfoot

#being #blame #call #dream #ever

But there is another danger besetting your path. I mean the error of regarding your own capacities instead of your work, of putting self-consciousness in place of God. ↗

— Joseph Barber Lightfoot

#besetting #capacities #danger #error #god

It is strange to reflect how much energy is thrown away in attempting to know the unknowable. ↗

— Joseph Barber Lightfoot

#away #energy #how #know #much

The tillage of the soil occupies the vast majority of those who work for their own bread. ↗

— Joseph Barber Lightfoot

#majority #occupies #own #soil #their

There will be no misgiving, no shrinking back, no calculation of overpowering odds, no terror of possible consequences, if you frankly accept the gift which God offers you tomorrow. ↗

— Joseph Barber Lightfoot

#back #calculation #consequences #frankly #gift

Words contract a significance which clings to them long after the condition of things to which they owe it has passed away. ↗

— Joseph Barber Lightfoot

#away #clings #condition #contract #long

Just as a mother finds pleasure in taking her little child on her lap, there to feed and caress him, in like manner our loving God shows His fondness for His beloved souls who have given themselves entirely to Him and have placed all their hope in His goodness. ↗

— Alphonsus Liguori

#beloved #caress #child #entirely #feed

Nothing else is required than to act toward God, in the midst of your occupations, as you do, even when busy, toward those who love you and whom you love. ↗

— Alphonsus Liguori

#busy #else #even #god #love

With such thoughts in your mind, now that you have resolved to love Him and please Him with all your strength, your only fear should be to fear God too much and to place too little confidence in Him. ↗

— Alphonsus Liguori

#fear #fear god #god #him #little