Just as at sea those who are carried away from the direction of the harbor bring themselves back on course by a clear sign . . . so scripture may guide those adrift on the sea of life back into the harbor of the divine will.
—Saint Gregory of Nyssa

Once again the scriptures are a lodestar, a benchmark. . . . Going back to this mother lode of wisdom and knowledge, inspired by God, brings grace and further insight.
—Megan McKenna

Every moment and every event of every [person’s] life on Earth plants something in his soul.
—Thomas Merton

May the strength of God pilot us, may the wisdom of God instruct us, may the hand of God protect us, may the word of God direct us. Be always ours this day and for evermore.
—Saint Patrick

For the Lord always goes ahead of you, he always walks before you. And, with him, life always begins anew.
—Pope Francis

Because God has made us for himself, our hearts are restless until they rest in him.
—Saint Augustine of Hippo 

Whatever may be the tensions and the stresses of a particular day, there is always lurking close at hand the trailing beauty of forgotten joy or unremembered peace.
—Howard Thurman

The cemetery is full of indispensable people.
—Winston Churchill

All guests who present themselves are to be welcomed as Christ, for he himself will say: “I was a stranger and you welcomed me.”
—Rule of Benedict

Love him totally who gave himself totally for your love.
—Clare of Assisi

Self-sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.
—G. K. Chesterton

Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime; therefore, we are saved by hope. . . . Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore, we are saved by love.
—Reinhold Niebuhr

Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
—Igor Stravinsky

The greatest hindrances to the evangelization of the world are those within the church.
—John R. Mott

Once you were not a people, but now you are God’s people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.
—1 Peter 2:10

Could a body broken and blood spilled 2,000 years ago restore my own damaged life?
—Frederica Mathewes-Green

The culmination of the Mass is not the consecration, but communion.
—Saint Maximilian Kolbe

In the same way that bread comes from the Earth, after having received the invocation, is no longer ordinary bread, but Eucharist, made up of two things, one earthly, one heavenly, so our bodies which participate in the Eucharist . . . have the hope of the Resurrection.
—Saint Irenaeus of Lyons

Mystery of the living God, and of his love for humankind, the Most High sends his Son to us and reveals himself as our Father; Christ exalted in glory gives us his Spirit in whom we praise you, God who is, who was, and who comes!
—Antiphon of Canticle of Mary, Trinity Sunday

If we are right to think that the Father gives and the Son receives the kiss, we do not err in thinking that the kiss itself is the Holy Spirit.
—Bernard of Clairvaux

In the trinitarian dogma God is one, good, true, and beautiful because [God] is essentially Love, and Love supposes the one, the other, and their unity.
—Hans Urs von Balthasar

At Pentecost . . . . like the limbs of a single   body, the separated members of the human race would be restored to unity by being joined to Christ, their common head, and welded into the oneness of a holy body by the fire of love.
—Augustine of Hippo

I believe in the surprises of the Holy Spirit.
—Cardinal Leo Suenens

What else did the presence of the Holy Spirit indicate at Pentecost, except that God’s church was to speak in the language of every people?
—Sixth-century African Pentecost homily

My mother and my brothers are those who hear the word of God and do it.
—Luke 8:21

Prayer holds together the shattered fragments of the creation. It makes history possible.
—Jacques Ellul

He will provide the way and the means, such as you could never have imagined. Leave it all to Him, let go of yourself. Lose yourself on the Cross, and you will find yourself entirely.
—Saint Catherine of Siena

You will ask me how I know his presence. Because he is living and active: Scarcely had he entered me than he awakened my slumbering soul.
—Saint Bernard of Clairvaux