That is our vocation: to convert . . . the enemy into a guest and to create the free and fearless space where brotherhood and sisterhood can be formed and fully experienced. 
—Henri J. M. Nouwen

We are the other of the other.
—Marcus Aurelius

The foreignness of what you no longer are or no longer possess lies in wait for you in foreign, unpossessed places.
—Italo Calvino

Joy is the infallible sign of the presence of God.
—Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

For me the most radical demand of Christian faith lies in summoning the courage to say yes to the present risenness of Jesus Christ.
—Brennan Manning

Faith is not a privilege to be claimed, but a gift to be shared.
—Pope Francis

What good is having someone who can walk on water if you don’t follow in his footsteps?
—Anonymous

Eternal life is personal existence in continuity with the present life but transfigured.
​—Georgia Harkness

One day, the gospel tells us, the tension gradually accumulated between humanity and God will touch the limits prescribed by the possibilities of the world. . . . Then the presence of Christ, which has been silently accruing in all things, will suddenly be revealed, like a flash from pole to pole.
—Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, S.J.

In the kingdom of love there is no competition; there is no possessiveness or control. The more love you give away, the more love you will have.
—John O’Donohue

Every faithful act of service, every honest labor to make the world a better place . . . will be seen on that day to have contributed to the perfect fellowship of God’s kingdom.
—Amy L. Sherman

On the one hand, love everything without distinction. On the other, love only the good. A mystery.
—Simone Weil

The possibility [exists] that hope comes out of hopelessness and that the opposite of things carry the seeds of birth—love out of hate, good out of evil. Didn’t flowers grow out of dirt?
—Robert Cormier 

Celebrating the Eucharist as a remembrance of Christ means practicing God’s justice towards neighbors, strangers, and enemies alike.
—Patrick T. McCormick

I will open my mouth in a parable; I will utter dark sayings from of old, things that we have heard and known, that our ancestors have told us.
—Psalm 78:2-3

Just as at sea those who are carried away from the direction of the harbor bring themselves back on course by a clear sign . . . so scripture may guide those adrift on the sea of life back into the harbor of the divine will.
—Saint Gregory of Nyssa

Once again the scriptures are a lodestar, a benchmark. . . . Going back to this mother lode of wisdom and knowledge, inspired by God, brings grace and further insight.
—Megan McKenna

Every moment and every event of every [person’s] life on Earth plants something in his soul.
—Thomas Merton

May the strength of God pilot us, may the wisdom of God instruct us, may the hand of God protect us, may the word of God direct us. Be always ours this day and for evermore.
—Saint Patrick

For the Lord always goes ahead of you, he always walks before you. And, with him, life always begins anew.
—Pope Francis

Because God has made us for himself, our hearts are restless until they rest in him.
—Saint Augustine of Hippo 

Whatever may be the tensions and the stresses of a particular day, there is always lurking close at hand the trailing beauty of forgotten joy or unremembered peace.
—Howard Thurman

The cemetery is full of indispensable people.
—Winston Churchill

All guests who present themselves are to be welcomed as Christ, for he himself will say: “I was a stranger and you welcomed me.”
—Rule of Benedict

Love him totally who gave himself totally for your love.
—Clare of Assisi

Self-sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.
—G. K. Chesterton

Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime; therefore, we are saved by hope. . . . Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore, we are saved by love.
—Reinhold Niebuhr

Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
—Igor Stravinsky

The greatest hindrances to the evangelization of the world are those within the church.
—John R. Mott

Once you were not a people, but now you are God’s people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.
—1 Peter 2:10