The fact that our heart yearns for something Earth cannot supply is proof that Heaven must be our home.
—C.S. Lewis

Do not be ashamed to serve others for the love of Jesus Christ and to seem poor in this world.
—Thomas à Kempis

How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be?
—Vincent van Gogh

It is the part of a good shepherd to shear his flock, not to skin it.
—Latin proverb

Suddenly I heard the words of Christ and understood them, and life and death ceased to seem to be evil, and instead of despair I experienced happiness and the joy of life undisturbed by death.
—Leo Tolstoy

You are my sheep, the sheep of my pasture, and I am your God, says the Lord God.
—Ezekiel 34:31

If . . . I were asked for the most important advice I could give . . . I should simply say: In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
—Leo Tolstoy

God loves you, is present in you, lives in you, dwells in you, calls you, saves you, and offers you an understanding and compassion which are like nothing you have ever found in a book or heard in a sermon.
—Thomas Merton

Faith without doubt is nothing but death.
—Miguel de Unamuno

Every Christian meal reveals aspects of the kingdom of God, where guests are welcomed, people share with one another, broken covenants are renewed, and all are reconciled.
—Father Eugene LaVerdiere, S.S.S., Dining in the Kingdom of God

I have . . . learned as a member of the Christian community what is the nature of God’s mercy, which does not leave me to overcome my sin by my own effort.
—Archbishop Rowan William

To be content, to find true love, is what essentially drives us all, but if found, would it be recognized?
—Saint Ambrose

We do not want a religion that is “outside of life.” Very well. But what is life? It must be taken in its entirety. What life would be worthy of our love and concern if it did not lead to eternal life?
—Henri de Lubac

But Palm Sunday tells us that it is the cross that is the true tree of life.
—Pope Benedict XVI

To endure the cross is not tragedy; it is the suffering which is the fruit of an exclusive allegiance to Jesus Christ.
—Dietrich Bonhoeffer

I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.
—Malcolm Muggeridge

One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history.
—Albert Schweitzer

No one can make the ascent without you, for you are our way, our truth, our life, our strength, our confidence, our reward. Be the way that receives us, the truth that strengthens us, the life that invigorates us.
—Saint Ambrose of Milan

I live each day to kill death; I die each day to beget life, and in this dying unto death, I die a thousand times and am reborn another thousand through that love from my people, which nourishes hope!
—Julia Esquivel

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible to others.
—Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)

You, too, should come to Siloam, that is, to him who was sent by the Father . . . . Let Christ wash you and you will then see.
—Saint Ambrose of Milan

God does not fit in an occupied heart.
—Saint John of the Cross

The words of the mouth are deep waters; the fountain of wisdom is a gushing stream.
—Proverbs 18:4

O Father, Son and Spirit Blest, with hearts transfigured by your grace, may we your matchless splendor praise and see the glory of your face.
—Breviary Lauds hymn on the Feast of the Transfiguration

To heal divisions, to relieve the oppress'd, In virtue rich; in blessing others, bless'd.
—The Odyssey

A promise is a cloud; fulfillment is rain.
—Arab proverb