With love and prayers by F. Jarvis. Quotes XII

-No age has believed no naively in inadequate faiths: the faith that promotion and success bring real happiness, the faith that pleasure brings real happiness, the faith that government money will solve the problems of society.
-Only the shepherds were aware that something significant had occurred. They were watching their flocks in the quiet of the night. They were listening. While the brightest and best, the important people, slept, it was the shepherds who heard the angel sing.
-Those who recognize their need, who are honest enough to see the emptiness and inadequacy of their lives, those who search for God in their need, always find him. The magi found the baby in the manger.
-The real beauty is beyond all its earthly imitations and representations, beyond all the earthly intimations and hints. It is at the top of Jacob's ladder. It is above the passing things of earth; it transcends time.
-God always nourishes those who stretch out their hands to him in longing hope. Such yearning always finds what it seeks.
-He who endures to the end shall be saved.
-God often sends in reinforcements to help just at the right moment.
-"He loved great things and thought little of himself". Balliol College at Oxford. Plaque in memory of one of the college tutors who died in an accident in Mount Blanc.
-How much grief we cause ourselves in life by assuming that everything will always go smoothly.
-Many people with very high I.Q's  are tremendous failures in life.
-Hope comes from the gut. Hope gives you the motivation to endure the hard work, the pain, the exhaustion that are part of any worthwhile endeavor. That's why hope is a virtue.
-God always answers prayer.
-Our deepest prayers are often not articulated in words.
-God gives us occasional glimpses into the meaning of things, in small, quiet ways.
-Hope is not optimism. Hope is realistic.
-All of you are going to die, some sooner, some later. What will they say about you? My prayer is that they will say about you what they said about Sir Robert Shirley: that in the worst of times you did the best things, and in the most calamitous of times you hoped the best things.