It is said Helen Keller was once asked if there was anything worse than being blind. She replied, "Having no vision."
—Stephen Kendrick, Holy Clues

The fullness of joy is to behold God in everything.
—Julian of Norwich (c. 1342-1417)

I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.
—Margaret Mead

The things that will destroy us are: politics without principle; pleasure without conscience; wealth without work; knowledge without character; business without morality; science without humanity; and worship without sacrifice.
—Mohandas Gandhi

All through our life Christ is calling us. He called us first in Baptism, but afterwards also, whether we obey his voice or not, he graciously calls us still. If we fall from our Baptism, he calls us to repent; if we are striving to fulfill our calling, he calls us on from grace to grace, and from holiness to holiness, while life is given us.
—John Henry Newman

It is asked of Christians that they let go of riches and many other things, but this is only a gesture of welcome, a preliminary condition to a rebirth that makes us over, renders us able to receive the salvation coming from God alone.
—J. Delorme

A sacrifice can change someone’s life today, a country tomorrow, and even change a history forever.
—Holy Spirit Missionary Sisters

That which can be lost cannot be deemed riches.
—Leonardo da Vinci, Thoughts on Art and Life

The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper name.
—Confucius

Marriage . . . joins bodies and souls; it mingles two spirits and unites two bodies. . . . Both of you are made from the same Earth, from the same clay.
—Asterius, bishop of Amasea in Asia Minor c. 400

Your Son went down from the heights of his divinity to the depths of our humanity. Can anyone’s heart remain closed and hardened after this?
—Saint Catherine of Siena

There are those who seem outside the sheepfold yet are inside it, and others who seem inside but our actually outside.
—Saint Augustine of Hippo

The cry of the oppressed is God’s voice. . . . The cry of the voiceless and the hopeless is God’s voice. . . . The protest of the poor is God’s voice. . . . And the voice of the countries who are victims of these injustices is God’s voice.
—Dom Hélder Câmara

I believe in that great love, that comes, or should come, from our heart, should start at home: with my family, my neighbors across the street, those right next door. And this love should then reach everyone.
—Mother Teresa

The whole world cannot rob of its peace the soul who really rests in God’s love . . . because genuine love of God in God is for the soul a rampart that no violence can break down. Christ’s peace is a rock . . . .
—Blessed Paul Giustiniana

The Eucharist is not the reward of saints, but the bread of sinners.
​—Pope Francis

Crucified inwardly and outwardly with Christ, you will live in this life with fullness and satisfaction of soul, and possess your soul in patience.
—John of the Cross

Faith and charity are the beginning and the end of life: the beginning is faith and the end is charity. The two together are God, and everything else that leads to human perfection is only a consequence of faith and charity.
—Ignatius of Antioch

I address a strong appeal that the dignity and safety of the workers always be protected.
—Pope Francis

We are all healers who can reach out and offer health, and we are all patients in constant need of help.
—Henri Nouwen

There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. But I tell you, this provokes avarice, and there comes the sin. Richness is given by God, and it is our duty to divide it with those less favored.
—Mother Teresa

We may truly be said to worship God-though we lack perfection; but we cannot be said to worship Him if we lack sincerity.
—Stephen Charnock

Deep in the human heart
The fire of justice burns;
A vision of a world renewed
Through radical concern.
—William L. Wallace

The highest form of wisdom is kindness.
—The Talmud

Hold your eyes on God and leave the doing to Him. That is all the doing you have to worry about.
—Saint Jeanne de Chantal

 We become Christ-bearers when his body and blood spread into our body. In this manner, according to Blessed Peter, we “come to share in the divine nature” (2 Peter 1:4).
—Cyril of Jerusalem

Let us pray Jesus to give us an earnest longing after him—a thirst for his presence—an anxiety to find him—a joy on hearing that he is to be found, even now, under the veil of sensible things.
—John Henry Newman