“Trying to do good to people without God's help is no easier than making the sun shine at midnight. You discover that you've got to abandon all your own preferences, your own bright ideas, and guide souls along the road our Lord has marked out for them. You mustn't coerce them into some path of your own choosing.” PeopleTryingIdeasSoulHelpingLordSunPathEasierShiningGuidesAbandonMidnightPreferenceOur LordWithout GodSun ShinesCoerceBright Ideas Author:Therese of Lisieux
“At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom. A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance.” WorldLongSoulEndsMomentsAgeNationsHoursSleepPowerfulStepsIndiaAwakeStrokesMidnightUtteranceIndia Independence DayIndian Independence Day Book:Sept. 1964-May 1949 Source: Sept. 1964-May 1949
“Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul When hot for certainties in this our life! - In tragic hints here see what evermore Moves dark as yonder midnight ocean's force, Thundering like ramping hosts of warrior horse, To throw that faint thin fine upon the shore!” SoulMovingForceDarkAnswersOur LivesFineOceanHorseHotCertaintyWarriorTragicShoreHostMidnightHintsEvermore Book:Poems of George Meredith Source: Poems of George Meredith