To pray means to think lovingly about Jesus. Prayer is the soul’s attention that is concentrated on Jesus. The more you love Jesus, the better you pray.

-Blessed Charles De Foulcauld

“We already have everything we need. There is no need for self-improvement. All these trips that we lay on ourselves—the heavy-duty fearing that we’re bad and hoping that we’re good, the identities that we so dearly cling to, the rage, the jealousy and the addictions of all kinds—never touch our basic wealth. They are like clouds that temporarily block the sun. But all the time our warmth and brilliance are right here. This is who we really are. We are one blink of an eye away from being fully awake.”

-Pema Chodron, Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living

“To open deeply, as genuine spiritual life requires, we need tremendous courage and strength, a kind of warrior spirit.”

-Jack Kornfield, A Path With Heart

“Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do.  Where there’s love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.”

-Ella Fitzgerald

Go therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you.  And behold I am with you always, until the end of the age.

-Matthew 28: 19-20

“The true measure of all our actions is how long the good in them lasts.”

-Queen Elizabeth II

God of love, thank you for always offering a voice to guide us.  Help us to listen for your call, discern it through the din, and please never let our fears outweigh our trust in You. – Amen

– Sisters of Bon Secours Prayer Book

Beside each believer stands an angel as protector and shepherd leading him to life.

-Saint Basil the Great

What did not lie in my plan lay in God’s plan.  And the more often something like this happens to me, the livelier becomes the conviction of my faith that-from God’s perspective-nothing is accidental.

-Saint Edith Stein

I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me.

–Anna Quindlen

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