Be at peace with your own soul,
then heaven and earth will be at peace with you.
Isaac of Nineveh
Love is not to be purchased,
and affection has no price.
St. Jerome
(a fawn seen in 2017 / Julie Cook)
“With creation, God does not abandon his creatures to themselves.
He not only gives them being and existence, but also, and at every moment,
upholds and sustains them in being,
enables them to act and brings them to their final end.
Recognizing this utter dependence with respect to the Creator
is a source of wisdom and freedom, of joy and confidence:
‘For you love all things that exist,
and detest none of the things that you have made;
for you would not have made anything if you had hated it.
How would anything have endured, if you had not willed it?
Or how would anything not called forth by you have been preserved?
You spare all things for they are yours,
O Lord, you who love the living’
(Wisdom 11:24-26).”
The Catechism of the Catholic Church, 301
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