“This may be how things have been, but not how they have to be”

— Amanda Gorman

The old man replied, “But there must be tens of thousands of starfish on this beach. I’m afraid you won’t really be able to make much of a difference.”

The boy bent down, picked up yet another starfish and threw it as far as he could into the ocean. Then he turned, smiled and said, “It made a difference to that one!”

– Loren Eiseley The Star Thrower

“If I tilt my head ever so slightly and listen for even just a moment, I can hear the Spirit’s still, small voice saying ‘you actually have all the time in the world’”

– Nadia Bolz Weber

“If the greatest commandment in Scripture is rooted in love, the greatest sin must be a failure to love.”

– Rich Villodas

“Relationships are our stories. I invite you to write often and edit well.” – Esther Perel

“Relationships are our stories. I invite you to write often and edit well.” – Esther Perel

“When our wounds cease to be a source of shame, and become a source of healing, we have become wounded healers.” — Henri Nouwen

“Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.”

—Mother Teresa

“Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.”

—Mother Teresa

“There is more in you of good than you know, child of the kindly West. Some courage and some wisdom, blended in measure. If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.” -Thorin, The Hobbit

“There’s room in the mighty river of peace to feel everything. Feel what you need to. And breathe.” ― Morgan Harper Nichols, Peace is a Practice

“Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.” ― Mother Teresa

“Joy is the oxygen for doing hard things.”

—Gary Haugen, CEO of International Justice Mission

“Hope is not positivity. It is the deep understanding that there is always more to see beyond my current circumstances.” — Scott Erickson

“Everyone around you—that is God.” — Archbishop Desmond Tutu

“The only thing that lasts forever is the love we give away.” — Jess Lowry

"If spirituality is not a very real growth in inner and outer freedom it is not authentic spirituality." — Richard Rohr, Just This

”I don’t think anyone can grow unless they’re loved exactly as they are now, appreciated for what they are rather than what they will be.”

— Mr. Rogers