“There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.” – Plato
Obedience, Not Sensations
“Caveat [let her beware!] – don’t count on any remarkable sensations, either at this or your first (or fifty first) Communion. God gives these or not as He pleases. Their presence does not prove that things are especially well, nor their absence that things are wrong. The intention, the obedience, is what matters.” – C. S. Lewis
The Most Wanted Posters
A kindergarten class went to the police station on a field trip. The police officer took the students past a wall with the Ten Most Wanted posters on display.
He expressed to the class that the police needed the help of the public to catch these fugitives. One student raised her hand and asked, “Are those the real pictures of the bad guys?”
“Yes, these are the bad guys,” confirmed the officer.
“Well,” pursued the kindergartener, “why didn’t you hold on to them when you took their picture?”
Little Decisions, Infinite Importance
“Good and evil both increase at compound interest. That is why the little decisions you and I make every day are of such infinite importance. The smallest good act today is the capture of a strategic point from which, a few months later, you may be able to go on to victories you never dreamed of. An apparently trivial indulgence in lust or anger today is the loss of a ridge or railway line or bridgehead from which the enemy may launch an attack otherwise impossible. – C. S. Lewis