The wish for healing has always been half of health.
—Seneca (d. 65 A.D.)

With the gift of listening comes the gift of healing.
–Catherine de Hueck Doherty (1896-1985)

John was a good man and had urged [others] to exert themselves to virtue, both as to justice toward one another and reverence toward God.
—Josephus, Antiquities (c. 94 A.D.)

Let your intentions be so pure that you reject from your actions any other motive than the glory of God and the salvation of souls.
–Saint Angela Merici (1470?-1540)

Food for our soul not only feeds us now but also opens up new possibilities that we might not have even considered.
—Robert J. Wicks, After 50

Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.
–Malcolm Muggeridge (1903-1990)

Forgiveness . . . is the ultimate declaration of equality, founded on the recognition that all crimes are the same crime, every failing the human failing, and every insult a cry for help.
—D. Patrick Miller, A Little Book of Forgiveness

O Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament, I would like to be filled with love for you; keep me closely united with you, may my heart be near to yours.
–Pope John XXIII, Journal of a Soul

God the Father is a deep root, the Son is the shoot that breaks forth into the world, and the Spirit is that which spreads beauty and fragrance.
—Tertullian (c. 160-225)

God makes three requests of his children: Do the best you can, where you are, with what you have, now.
–African-American proverb

To Saint Paul. . . . the Holy Spirit is given to all Christians, and to each one in particular; and . . . in turn gives to each and every one gifts and charisms.
—Cardinal Leo Joseph Suenens (1904-1996)

I am sending the promise of my Father upon you; but stay in the city until you are clothed with power from on high.
–Luke 24:49

As sign and wonder this exaltation is a pointer to the revelation . . . of Jesus Christ as the heart of all powers in heaven and earth. 
—Karl Barth (1886-1968)

For Christ also suffered for sins once . . . . Put to death in the flesh, he was brought to life in the spirit. In it he also went to preach to the spirits in prison. 
—1 Peter 3:18-19

Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one’s own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.
—John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)

All loves, if rightly ordered, are seen as capable of leading a person deeper into the mystery of divine love.
–Wendy M. Wright, Heart Speaks to Heart

Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier.
—Mother Teresa (1910-1977)

At Damascus, the governor . . . guarded the city of Damascus, in order to seize me, I was lowered in a basket through a window in the wall and escaped his hands.
–2 Corinthians 11:33