No sin, failure, humiliation or exclusion can diminish the profound value of a human life that God has willed and called into being. 
—Pope Leo XIV

The winds symbolize the temptations and persecution the Church will suffer due to lack of love. For, as Saint Augustine says, when love grows cold, the sea becomes rougher and the boat begins to founder. Yet the wind, the storm, the waves, and the darkness will fail to put it off course and wreck it.
—Saint Thomas Aquinas

Hope is the lifeline that connects us to God’s mercy and grace.
—Saint Faustina

if people are hurt, what does Jesus do? Scold them because they are hurt? No, he comes and h carries them on his shoulders.
—Pope Francis

We must often draw the comparison between time and eternity. This is the remedy of all our troubles. How small will the present moment appear when we enter that great ocean.
—Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton

The fundamental dignity of each person is neither acquired nor earned, nor does it need to be justified.
—Pope Leo XIV

Whenever we encounter another person in love, we learn something new about God.
―Pope Francis, in Evangelii Gaudium (The Joy of the Gospel)

[Jesus] spoke in parables, because he wished to excite them to inquiry. He spoke obscurely, to make them listen; for things plainly expressed are apt to be lightly esteemed.
—Saint John Chrysostom

God is seen by those who have the capacity to see him, provided they keep the eyes of their mind open.
—Saint Theophilus of Antioch

There is no true freedom except in the service of what is good and just.
—Catechism of the Catholic Church, #1733

You are rewarded not according to your work or your time but according to the measure of your love.
—Saint Catherine of Siena