Quote by Abram J. Ryan

“The world worships joy -- goes forth to meet it, welcomes it, walks in its light --but flies or tries to fly from grief. And yet after all that earth-joy is vain, fleeting, and unsatisfying. A ghost of grief haunts the footsteps of every joy. Only spiritual joy can satisfy the soul -- joys that spring from prayers, graces, sacraments, obediences to God's laws. And these fill the heart with that holy peace which this world can neither give nor take away.”

Quote by Abram J. Ryan