God says: I have willed that one should need another and that all should be my ministers in distributing the graces and gifts they have received from me.

– St. Catherine of Siena

From the greatness and beauty of created things comes a corresponding perception of their creator.

Wisdom 13:5

God of words and silence, we ask for the gift of listening. Our world and our minds are noisy.  We struggle to sit in quiet and wait upon your word.

Help us to trust that you will speak your will to us in the silence of our listening prayer.

– Bishop Robert Morneau

You cannot imagine at all how much you interest God; he is interested in you as if there were no one else  on earth.

-Julien Green, French Writer

There are people whose presence is encouraging. One of the most beautiful gifts in the world is the gift of encouragement.

When someone encourages you, that person helps you over a threshold you might otherwise never have crossed on your own.

– John O’Donohue

You, O eternal Trinity, are the deep sea into which, the more I enter, the more I find, and the more I find, the more I seek.

O abyss, O eternal Godhead, O sea profound, What more could you give me than yourself?

– From a Prayer of St. Catherine of Siena

Do not grasp at the stars, but do life’s plain, common work as it comes,

certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things in life.

– Robert Louis Stevenson

Teach us that even as the wonder of the stars in the heavens only reveals itself in the silence of the night, so the wonder of life reveals itself in the silence of the heart. In the silence of our heart we may see the scattered leaves of all the universe bound by love.

from The Bhagavad Gita

Faith is not a light which scatters all our darkness,

but a lamp which guides our steps in the night,

and suffices for the journey

– Pope Francis

God of every human being, You never force our heart.

You place your peaceful light within each one of us,

With that light shining on them, our failures and our joys find meaning in you.

– Brother Roger of Taize