Somewhere, in this day, there is a blessing waiting for you. I think it was placed there by the more mischievous angels, but maybe that is only in my imagination. The blessing, however, is real. It is a small moment of grace, a restoration of your faith in humanity, a sign of healing in your life, waiting somewhere in the hours ahead, waiting to appear before you like a field of wildflowers along a busy highway. The presence of the holy is always there, hiding in plain sight. All we have to do to find it is open our hearts and still our minds. The angels will take care of the rest.   

— Steven Charleston

“God is not ashamed of the lowliness of human beings.  God marches right in.  He chooses people as his instruments and performs his wonders where one would least expect them.  God is near to lowliness; he loves the lost, the neglected, the unseemly, the excluded, the weak and broken.” 

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“Give, even if you only have a little.” 

— Buddha

“Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic.  Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love.” 

— Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

“He (Jesus) did not say ‘You will never have a rough passage, you will never be over-strained, you will never feel uncomfortable’, but he did say, ‘You will never be overcome’. 

— Julian of Norwich

 

“The more you succeed in loving, the more you’ll be convinced of the existence of God and the immortality of your soul”. 

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“We all have the same God, we just serve him differently.  Rivers, lakes, ponds, streams, oceans all have different names, but they all contain water.  So do religions have different names, and they all contain truth, expressed in different ways, forms and times.  It doesn’t matter whether you’re a Muslim, a Christian or a Jew. When you believe in God, you should believe that all people are part of one family.  If you love God, you can’t love only some of his children”. 

—Muhammad Ali

“Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world’s grief.  Do justly, now.  Love mercy, now.  Walk humbly, now.  You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it.” 

—From The Talmud

“There’s a light in this world, a healing spirit more powerful than any darkness we may encounter. We sometimes lose sight of this force where there is suffering, too much pain. Then suddenly, the spirit will emerge through the lives of ordinary people who hear a call and answer in extraordinary ways”

—Mother Teresa

“You pray for the hungry.  Then you feed them.  This is how prayer works.” 

—Pope Frances

“It is easy enough to tell the poor to accept their poverty as God’s will when you yourself have warm clothes and plenty of food and medical care and a roof over your head and no worry about the rent.  But if you want them to believe you, try to share some of their poverty and see if you can accept it as God’s will yourself.” 

—Thomas Merton