"O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are His judgements, and His ways of past finding out!" -ROM. xi. 33.
"It doth not yet appear what we shall be." -1 JOHN iii. 2.
NO star is ever lost we once have seen,
We always may be what we might have been.
Since God, though only thought, has life and breath,
God's life-can always be redeemed from death;
And evil, in its nature, is decay,
And any hour can blot it all away:
The hopes that lost in some far distance seem,
May be the truer life, and this the dream.
-A. A. PROCTER
ST. BERNARD has said: 'Man, if thou desirest a noble and holy life, and unceasingly prayest to God for it, if thou continue constant in this thy desire, it will be granted unto without fail, even if God should not give it to thee then, thou shalt find it in Him in eternity: of this be assured.' Therefore do not relinqiush your desire, though it be not fulfilled immediately, or though ye may swerve from your aspirations, or even forget them for a time. . . . The love and aspiration which once really existed lived forever before God, and in Him ye shall find the fruit thereof; that is, to all eternity it shall be bettter for you than if you had never felt them.
J. TAULER. 1290-1361
