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“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.” — 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.