“Thus the eternal God, our Lord, gives victory to those who follow His way over apparent impossibilities.”

Goals are simply tools to focus your energy in positive directions, these can be changed as your priorities change, new one added, and others dropped.

These people are very unskilled in arms – with 50 men they could all be subjected and made to do all that one wished.

For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps.

Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise.

My desire was not to pass any island without taking possession, so that, one having been taken, the same may be said of all.

Life has more imagination than we carry in our dreams.

It is hoped that by God’s assistance, some of the continents in the Ocean will be discovered for the Glory of God.

Tomorrow morning before we depart, I intend to land and see what can be found in the neighborhood.

By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination.

But in truth, should I meet with gold or spices in great quantity, I shall remain till I collect as much as possible, and for this purpose I am proceeding solely in quest of them.

Day and night, moment by moment, everyone should express their most devoted gratitude to God.

The air soft as that of Seville in April, and so fragrant that it was delicious to breathe it.

One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. Variants include “You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore”.

No one should fear to undertake any task in the name of our Saviour, if it is just and if the intention is purely for His holy service.

You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.

I’m telling you that India is that way, now set my course.

To sense the ultimate in the common and the simple: to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.

To sense the ultimate in the common and the simple, to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.

It is a day on which we are called upon to share in what is eternal in time, to turn from the results of creation to the mystery of creation; from the world of creation to the creation of the world.

Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.

Nothing in Nature’s sober found, But an eternal Health goes round. Fill up the Bowl then, fill it high

No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn.

The Bliss indeed is eternal, only it is covered and obscured by ignorance.

Meditate upon the Knowledge and Bliss Eternal , and you will also have bliss.