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Beautiful Thoughts
Beautiful Thoughts
In “Cyrano de Bergerac”……………
“There comes one moment, once –
And God help those who pass that moment by –
When beauty stands and looks into the soul
With grave, sweet eyes that sicken at pretty words.”
Mother Teresa
“When I pray,
I do not talk to God…….
I just listen.”
A 22-year old Filipina, taking care of her mother, who was dying of cancer. The mother had a
bad night. The daughter was up all night, trying to keep her comfortable. In the morning the
mother looked at her, and said softly: “You will get tired taking care of me.” The daughter
wept all day that her mother should even think that! She said.........
“How could I get tired taking care of her?
She is my mother!......She is my mother!”
A mother stayed in bed for six month, on the advice of her doctor, so that the child in her
womb would be safely born. After the delivery, when her baby was placed in her arms, the
mother wept, and said………
“It was worth it!......It was worth it!”
Saint Vincent de Paul to Louise de Marillac, when she became physically sick after seeing two
destitute charity patients fighting each other for the bed space of another charity patient who
had just died…
“Well……you can not expect the poor
to have all the virtues of the rich……”
Saint Vincent de Paul to a 17-year old nun who was going out with a basket of bread, to
distribute it to the poor……
“Sister, when you give out the bread…..smile!
Because it is only your love for the poor
that will enable them to forgive you
for the crust of bread you give them.”
Abraham Lincoln, at the end of the civil war in the United States, wanted to give amnesty to
the rebels of the South. His councilors said to him: “In combat, it is a primary principal:
destroy your enemies!”………. Lincoln thought about it for a moment, and then said:……
“If I can make my enemies my friends…….
I have destroyed my enemies!”
Horacio de la Costa S.J., in his Christmas poem: “Juan de la Cruz Hangs Up a Paper Star……
“And if you ask why I affirm
That Melchor was King of Tondo
When Gaspar ruled Sampaloc
And Baltazar Binondo……
We will not argue. We will walk
The streets on Christmas Eve……
And I will show you the poor man’s rafter
Where hangs the Star the Kings sought after
High above Christian prayer and laughter…….
You will see it, and believe!
For when they crossed the sea again
From Bethlehem afar
They lost their camels in the sea
And they forgot the Christmas Tree
But they brought back to you and me
The secret of the Star!”
Graham Greene in “The Fugitive” tells the story of a Mexican Priest in the time of
persecution. The priest has serious faults: he is a mild alcoholic, and he has a child. But he
understands how much the people need God, and he works, heroically, night and day, at his
priesthood. Finally he is trapped by a strong, determined Communist, is tried, and sentenced
to death. Sitting on the floor of his cell, waiting to be executed, he says to the communist………
“The trouble with Communism is that it can only succeed
when it operates through good men, like you…..But the
strength of the Church is that it can succeed even though
it works through men who are no good……like me.”
And I guess the most beautiful realization that ever comes to anyone is this: the one who really
loves you, the one who is willing to sacrifice for you, the one who supports you always, no
matter what….. is God.
God is a friend!