A Crown for Our Queen Quotes

“Better thorns than flowers -- for flowers fade.”
― Abram J. Ryan, A Crown for Our Queen

“Life is the logic that proves the power of Christ.”
― Abram J. Ryan, A Crown for Our Queen

“Faith without the sacraments is a sky without the sun.”
― Abram J. Ryan, A Crown for Our Queen

“The world worships joy -- goes forth to meet it, welcomes it, walks in its light --but flies or tries to fly from grief. And yet after all that earth-joy is vain, fleeting, and unsatisfying. A ghost of grief haunts the footsteps of every joy.
Only spiritual joy can satisfy the soul -- joys that spring from prayers, graces, sacraments, obediences to God's laws. And these fill the heart with that holy peace which this world can neither give nor take away.”
― Abram J. Ryan, A Crown for Our Queen

“When a gift to a child passes along the palm of a mother's hand, it becomes more precious.”
― Abram J. Ryan, A Crown for Our Queen

“You cannot take the child out of those arms or from that breast [of Mary]. It is the first altar purer than any altar ever to be in all time. And those arms own that child.”
― Abram J. Ryan, A Crown for Our Queen

“The world is a loud talker but a very poor thinker. It lives on words -- very poor food, -- and on noises, --very poor music. It does not understand that solitude is the home of great thoughts and aspirations.”
― Abram J. Ryan, A Crown for Our Queen