God of every human being, You never force our heart. You place your peaceful light Within each one of us,   With that light shining on them, Our failures and…

All good things are wild, and free. Henry David Thoreau

Faith is crumpling and throwing away everything, proposition by proposition, until nothing is left, and then writing a new proposition, your very own, to throw in the teeth of despair.…

I live, but my life is that of Christ's. And in possessing me, my poor Lord possesses nothing. And I, in possessing Him, possess everything. St. Anthony Mary Claret

It is not enough for a Christian to condemn evil, cowardice, lies and use of force, hatred, and oppression.  He must at all times be a witness to and defender…

Oh Lord, may I be directed what to do and what to leave undone. Elizabeth Fry, Quaker, Prison Reformer

You can look at a slum or peasant village, but it is only by entering into that world--by living in it-- that you begin to understand what it is like…

Our life has not been an ascent up one side of a mountain and down the other. We did not reach a peak, only to decline and die. We have…

Nothing is inherently and invincibly young except spirit. And spirit can enter a human being perhaps better in the quiet of old age and dwell there more undisturbed than in…

You can't step twice into the same river, for fresh waters are ever flowing in upon you. Heraclitus of Ephesus

And so, from the day we heard, we have not ceased to pray for you, asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual…

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavens, as he chose us in him,  before the…

Nothing escapes the Creator's cycles.  Not plants, horses, trees, birds, or human beings.  Each soul is a gust of God's breath unfolding in the great energy that surrounds us like…

You know well enough that God does not look so much at the greatness of our actions, nor even at their difficulty, but at the love with which we do…

It is only because of your love, only your love, that the poor will forgive you the bread you give them. St. Vincent de Paul