One person is lavish yet grows still richer; another is too sparing, yet is the poorer.
—Proverbs 11: 24

We have received from God the great gift that is freedom. If it is not used well, freedom can lead us away from God, can make us lose the dignity with which He has clothed us.
—Pope Francis

O God, to know you is life. To serve you is freedom. To praise you is the soul’s joy and delight.
—Saint Augustine

Do not look forward to the trials and crosses of this life and fear. Rather, look to them with full confidence that, as they arise, God, to whom you belong, will deliver you from them.
—Saint Francis de Sales

Let us be silent that we may hear the whispers of God.  
—Ralph Waldo Emerson

The world is charged with the grandeur of God.
—Gerard Manley Hopkins

He who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.
—Saint Basil the Great

Great love can change small things into great ones, and it is only love which lends value to our actions.
—Saint Faustina 

United we stand, divided we fall.
—Aesop

You need to let your wounds go down to your heart. Then you can live through them and discover that they will not destroy you. Your heart is greater than your wounds. 
—Henri Nouwen

A hero is someone who has given his or her life for something bigger than one’s self.
—Joseph Campbell, author

Be present in all things and thankful for all things.
—Maya Angelou

On the day of Pentecost, the Holy Spirit descended with power upon the Apostles; thus began the mission of the Church in the world.
—Pope Benedict XVI

Come, Holy Spirit. Spirit of truth, you are the reward of the saints, the comforter of souls, light in the darkness, riches to the poor, treasure to lovers, food for the hungry, comfort to those who are wandering; to sum up, you are the one in whom all treasures are contained.
—Saint Mary Magdalene de Pazzi

My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.
—Desmond Tutu

For although He ascended alone, we also ascend, because we are in Him by grace.
—Saint Augustine

The soul is in God and God is in the soul.  God is closer to us than water is to a fish.
—Saint Catherine of Siena

Hold back nothing of yourself for yourself, so that He who gives Himself totally to you may receive you totally.
—Saint Francis of Assisi

I am not my own; I have given myself to Jesus. He must be my only love. 
—Saint Kateri Tekakwitha

You have to prune so you can grow.
—Liz Montigny, goals coach and retreat leader

Vines and trees will teach you that which you will never learn from masters.
—Saint Bernard of Clairvaux