Everything we call a trial, a sorrow or a duty, believe me, that angel's hand is there, the gift is there, and the wonder of an overshadowing presence. Our joys, too, be not content with them as joys. They, too, conceal diviner gifts.
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Life is so full of meaning and purpose, so full of beauty beneath its covering that you will find earth but cloaks your heaven.Fra Giovanni Giocondo
No heaven can come to us unless our hearts find rest in today. No peace lies in the future which is not hidden in this present little instant.
Fra Giovanni Giocondo
The gloom of the world is but a shadow. Behind it, yet within our reach is joy. There is radiance and glory in the darkness could we but see and to see we have only to look.
Fra Giovanni Giocondo
I am your friend and my love for you goes deep. There is nothing I can give you which you have not got, But there is much, very much, that, while I cannot give it, you can take. No heaven can come to us unless our hearts find rest in today. Take heaven No peace lies in the future which is not hidden in this present little instant. Take peace The gloom of the world is but a shadow. Behind it, yet within our reach, is joy.
Fra Giovanni Giocondo
Life is so generous a giver, but we, judging its gifts by the covering, cast them away as ugly or heavy or hard. Remove the covering and you will find beneath it a living splendor, woven of love, by wisdom, with power.
Fra Giovanni Giocondo
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