It seems a law of fallen nature that life must always come to its being through darkness, and this makes us even more aware of its beauty. Dawn is lovelier because it comes after night, spring because it follows winter.

Caryll Houselander

Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy. That is not our business and, in fact, it is nobody's business. What we are asked to do is to love, and this love itself will render both ourselves and our neighbours worthy.

~ Thomas Merton

Hope is not just one single quality or promise. Hope has to do with believing beyond today - knowing there’s a garden of beauty that awaits me. Joyce Rupp.

The Crucified One is God’s standing solidarity with the suffering, the tragedy, and the disaster of all time, and God’s promise that it will not have the final word.

The Risen One is God’s final word about the universe and what God plans to do with all suffering.

- Richard Rohr

“Most people spend their entire life imprisoned within the confines of their own thoughts. They never go beyond a narrow, mind-made, personalized sense of self that is conditioned by the past.”

- Eckhart Tolle