Mary

“The soul is the seed of eternity we bear in ourselves.”
― Catholic Catechism

“but who can feel ugly, when their heart feels joy”
― C.S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces

“If a little flower could speak, it seems to me that it would tell us quite simply all that God has done for it, without hiding any of its gifts. It would not, under the pretext of humility, say that it was not pretty, or that it had not a sweet scent, that the sun had withered its petals,or the storm bruised its stem, if it knew that such were not the case.”
― St. Thérèse de Lisieux, Story of a Soul: The Autobiography of St. Thérèse of Lisieux

“I have what passes for an education in this day and time, but I am not deceived by it.”
― Flannery O'Connor, The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor