“White and shining virgin of all human virtues, ark of the covenant between earth and heaven, tender and strong companion partaking of the lion and of the lamb, Prayer! Prayer will give you the key of heaven! Bold and pure as innocence, strong, like all that is single and simple, this glorious, invincible Queen rests, nevertheless, on the material world; she takes possession of it; like the sun, she clasps it in a circle of light.” WorldGivingHumansLightEarthStrongHeavenPrayerSimpleWhiteSunVirtueMaterialsKeysPureShiningPossessionCirclesInnocenceQueensGloriousCompanionLionsNeverthelessVirginsCovenantLambsInvincibleMaterial WorldArk Author:Honore de Balzac
“Chacun exige d'e" tre innocent, a' tout prix, me" me si, pour cela, il faut accuser le genre humain et le ciel. Everyone insists on his or her innocence, at all costs, even if it means accusing the rest of the human race and heaven.” IfsHumansMeanHeavenRaceCostInnocentInnocenceGenreHuman RaceAccusingAccusers Author:Albert Camus
“Holy Communion is the shortest and safest way to Heaven. There are others: innocence, but that is for little children; penance, but we are afraid of it; generous endurance of trials of life, but when they come we weep and ask to be. The surest, easiest, shortest way is the Eucharist.” WayChildrenLittlesAsksHeavenHolyTrialsInnocenceGenerousEnduranceCommunionEucharistPenanceHoly Communion Author:Pope Pius X
“If cynicism is inevitable as one ages, so is the yearning for innocence. To children heaven is being an adult, and to adults heaven is being children again.” IfsChildrenAgeHeavenAdultsAgingInnocenceInevitableYearningCynicism Book:Deep Play Source: Deep Play
“Your Christians, whom one persecutes in vain, have something in them that surpasses the human. They lead a life of such innocence,that the heavens owe them some recognition: that they arise the stronger the more they are beaten down is hardly the result of common virtues.” HumansChristianHeavenResultsCommonChristianityVirtueStrongerAriseRecognitionInnocenceVainBeatenPersecution Author:Pierre Corneille
“A good wife is heaven's last, best gift to man, - his gem of many virtues, his casket of jewels; her voice is sweet music, her smiles his brightest day, her kiss the guardian of his innocence, her arms the pale of his safety.” MenLastsHeavenVoiceVirtueWifeSweetArmsKissingSafetyInnocencePaleJewelsGuardianGemsGood WifeBest GiftHer SmileCasketsSweet Music Author:Jeremy Taylor