Violence is what happens when we don’t know what else to do with our suffering.  (Parker Palmer)

We become what we love and who we love shapes what we become. This means we are to become vessels of God’s compassionate love for others.  (St. Clare of Assisi)

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.  (Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.)

What if the world is holding its breath - waiting for you to take the place that only you can fill?  (David Whyte)

Every human being desires communion and peace. Everyone needs peaceful co-existence. But this can grow only when we also build inner peace in our heart.  (Pope Francis)

Climate change is the single biggest thing that humans have ever done on this planet. The one thing that needs to be bigger is our movement to stop it.  (Bill…

Like Saint Francis of Assisi, all of us, as Christians, are called to watch over and protect the fragile world in which we live, and all its peoples. (Pope Francis)

We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?  (Wendell Berry)

“The universe is the primary revelation of the divine, the primary scripture, the primary locus of divine-human communication.”  (Thomas Berry)

"The natural world is the larger sacred community to which we belong. To be alienated from this community is to become destitute in all that makes us human. To damage…