Emerlinda's Cross

Lemitar, New Mexico

We must bear our crosses; self is the greatest of them all. If we die in part every day of our lives, we shall have but little to do on the last. How utterly these little daily deaths destroy the power of the final dying!

~ Francois de Salignac Fenelon

To deny one's self, to take up the cross, denotes something immeasurably grander than self-imposed penance or rigid conformity to a divine statute. It is the surrender of self to an ennobling work, an absolute subordination of personal advantages and of personal pleasures for the sake of truth and the welfare of others and a willing acceptance of every disability which their interests may entail.

~George Horace Lorimer