Emma Cassman

“Hard as Stepan Arkadyich tried to be a solicitous father and husband, he never could remember that he had a wife and children.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, Vol 3 of 8

“this is what the past is for! Every experience God gives us, every person He puts in our lives is the perfect preparation for a future that only He can see.”
― Corrie ten Boom, The Hiding Place

“Finally, Philothea, I beseech you in the name of all that is sacred in Heaven and earth, by the Baptism which you received, by the tender Heart with which Jesus loves you, and by those bowels of compassion which are your hope, abide and persevere in this blessed undertaking of a devout life. Our days glide by; death is at our door.”
― Saint Francis de Sales, Introduction To The Devout Life

“She looked at everyone, and with so much love and affection! Sometimes she seemed to be looking one by one at people there, and now and again her look would rest on someone for a moment as thought she had recognized a friend.”
― Michel de Saint-Pierre, Bernadette and Lourdes: The Whole Inspiring Story of Our Lady of Lourdes