I will bless the Lord at all times; praise shall always be in my mouth. My soul will glory in the Lord that the poor may hear and be glad.  Magnify the Lord with me; let us exalt in His name together.  -Psalm 34:1-4

Almighty God will answer well enough for those who have no desire to leave their occupation of loving him in order to make excuses for themselves.-Cloud of Unknowing, page 55

Our calling is where our deepest gladness and the world’s hunger meet.  – Frederick Buechner

To love God and neighbor is not something abstract, but profoundly concrete; it means seeing in every person the face of the Lord to be served, to serve him concretely. And you are, dear brothers and sisters, the face of Jesus.

-Pope Francis

….Silence guards the inner heat of religious emotions.  This inner heat is the life of the Holy Spirit within us. Thus silence is the discipline by which the inner fire of God is tended and kept alive.

-Henry Nouwen; The Way of the Heart

You can do something I can’t do.  I can do something you can’t do.  Together let us do something beautiful for God

-Mother Teresa

“We are made for transcendence and endless horizons but our small ego usually gets in the way until we become aware of its petty preoccupations and eventually seek a deeper truth. It is like mining for a diamond.

-Father Richard Rohr, Immortal Diamond

Christ likes us to prefer truth to himself because before being Christ, he is truth.  If one turns aside from him to go toward the truth, one will not go far before falling into his arms.

Simone Weil, Waiting for God

“For me to be a saint means to be myself. Therefore the problem of sanctity and salvation is in fact the problem of finding out who I am and of discovering my true self.” – Thomas Merton