Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of LOVE.

Hamilton Wright Mabie

Peace cannot be achieved through violence; it can only be attained through understanding.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hope is the conviction that everything – including suffering – has ultimate meaning.

Dr. Iain McGilchrist.  

We are asked to choose which world we want to live in – a world of retributive justice or a world of forgiveness.  We can’t operate in both orders.

Melissa Florer-Bixler

The greatest gift one can give is thanksgiving.  In giving gifts, we give what we can spare, but in giving thanks we give ourselves.

David Steindl-Rast