ThePrill

“Begin as you mean to go on, and go on as you began, and let the Lord be all in all to you.”
― Charles H. Spurgeon, All of Grace

“I state as my simple deduction from the things I have seen and the things I have heard, that the Holy Personages rank thus in Rome:

First - "The Mother of God" - otherwise the Virgin Mary
Second - The Deity
Third - Peter
Fourth - Some twelve or fifteen canonised Popes and martyrs
Fifth - Jesus Christ the Saviour - (but always as an infant in arms.)”
― Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens), The Innocents Abroad, Or, the New Pilgrims' Progress

“But isn't this relic matter a little overdone? We find a piece of the true cross in every old church we go into, and some of the nails that held it together. I would not like to be positive, but I think we have seen as much as a keg of these nails. Then there is the crown of thorns; they have part of one in Sainte Chapelle, in Paris, and part of one, also, in Notre Dame. And as for bones of St. Denis, I feel certain we have seen enough of them to duplicate him, if necessary.”
― Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens), The Innocents Abroad, Or, the New Pilgrims' Progress

“But in the long run it is perhaps even more apparent in our growing - for it ought to be growing - awareness that our whole being by its very nature is one vast need; incomplete, preparatory, empty yet cluttered, crying out for Him who can untie things that are now knotted together and tie up things that are dangling loose.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves