In faith, there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don’t.
—Blaise Paschal

The Lord became our bread and we are his bread. . . . If you want to know him, break yourself as he did, because anyone who claims to abide in Christ ought to live as he lived. . . . Bear in your body the marks of Jesus Christ by accepting the condition of a servant, not of a superior. And when you have emptied yourself, you will know the Lord through the breaking of bread.
—12th-century homily

By his miraculous entry through closed doors Christ proved to his disciples that by nature he was God and also that he was none other than their former companion.
—Cyril of Alexandria

Open Thy gate of mercy, gracious God, my soul flies through these wounds to seek you out.
—William Shakespeare

Love and ever more love is the only solution to every problem.
—Dorothy Day

The empty tomb of Christ has been the cradle of the church.
—Edmond Pressensé

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

The one who seeks not the cross of Christ seeks not the glory of Christ.
—John of the Cross

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

Yes, Lord, we do follow you, but we can only come at your bidding. 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.
—Ambrose of Milan

We who are slaves of Christ make our bodies serve and our minds govern, so that the flesh receives its orders and accompanies our will, which is guided by Christ our maker.
—Paulinus of Nola

The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me; my eye and God’s eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing, one love.
—Meister Eckhart

He who restored the man to health by anointing his eyes with clay is the very one who fashioned the first [humans] out of clay, and . . . this clay that is our flesh can receive the light of eternal life through the sacrament of baptism.
—Ambrose of Milan

There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.
—Søren Kierkegaard

Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.
—Mark Twain

To hold to God is to rely on the fact that God is there for me, and to live in this certainty.
—Karl Barth

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

Both at the beginning of creation, and at the beginning of the recreation, temptation was the first event.
—Pope Francis

One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.
—Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Draw near to God, and Satan will flee from you.
—Ephraem the Syrian

Teach us to give and not to count the cost.
—Ignatius of Loyola

The only gift is a portion of thyself.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson