Let me trust in your mercy, not in myself. Let my hope be in your love, not in health, or strength, or ability or human resources. If I trust you, everything else will become, for me, strength, health, and support. Everything will bring me to heaven. If I do not trust you, everything will be my destruction.

- Thomas Merton
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When you pray, remember the breath that makes us living beings; from God it comes; to God it returns. Blend the Word and the prayer with the flow of life and nothing will come between you and the Giver of Life.  

- St. Seraphim

Sin is the illusion that death will never come. I like to think of death as a final act of justice. On one hand, death. Use the wages of sin, but on the other it opens the door to redemption.

- Pope Francis

Are we convinced of Christ's love for us? And our love for him?
This conviction is the rock on which sanctity is built. To have this conviction, we must know Jesus, love Jesus, and serve Jesus.

-Mother Teresa

Pay Caesar what is Caesar's; God, what is God’s.

- Jesus
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God is helping me, temptation has no power against me, and my own nature is spiritual and perfect. Moral regeneration and spiritual unfoldment go hand-in-hand. The Christian life requires genuine striving for perfection.

- Emmett Fox

We must act in a selfless spirit without ego- involvement and without getting entangled in whether things work out the way we want; only then we will not fall into the terrible net of karma. Even to survive in the world, we must act.

- Krishna

See first that you yourself deserve to be a giver and an instrument of giving. For in truth, it is life that gives unto life -while you who deem yourself a giver, are but a witness.

- Khahlil Gibran

If we can see it is our agreements that rule our own life, and we don't like the dream of our life, we need to change the agreements. Each time you break an agreement, all the power you used to create it returns to you.

- Miguel Ruiz

I Stand And Look

I stand and look into the dark under a cloud,
But I see in the distance where the sun shines,
I see the thin haze on the tall white steeples of the city-
I see the glistening waters in the distance.

- Walt Whitman

My computer keeps trying,
Over and over,
to capitalize the letter i,
(Maybe that's our problem)

- Jef Joslin

The cloud weeps, then the garden sprouts.
The baby cries, and the mother's milk flows.
The nurse of creation has said, LET THEM CRY A LOT.

-Anonymous

This rain-weeping and sun-burning twine together to make us grow. Keep your intelligence white-hot and your grief glistening, so your life will stay fresh.
Cry easily, like a little child.

- Rumi

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