Life is so generous a giver but we, judging its gifts by their covering, cast them away as ugly or heavy or hard. Remove the covering and you will fi…

- Giovanni Giocondo

No heaven can come to us unless our hearts find rest in it today.

- Giovanni Giocondo

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 presenc…

- 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.

- Giovanni Giocondo

Courage you have, and the knowledge that we are all pilgrims together, wending through unknown country, home.

- Giovanni Giocondo

Everything we call a trial, a sorrow, or a duty, believe me, that angel's hand is there.

- Giovanni Giocondo

The gloom of the world is but a shadow; behind it, yet within our reach, is joy. Take joy.

- Giovanni Giocondo

I salute you! There is nothing I can give you which you have not; but there is much, that, while I cannot give you, you can take. No heaven can come …

- Giovanni Giocondo

Life is so full of meaning and of purpose, so full of beauty - beneath its covering - that you will find that earth but cloaks your heaven. Courage, …

- Giovanni Giocondo