" No greater love not even God could give than in giving Himself as Bread of life--to be broken, to be eaten so that you and I may eat and live--may eat and so satisfy our hunger for love.--And He seemed yet not satisfied for He too was hungry for love.--So He made Himself the Hungry One, the Thirsty One, the Naked One, the Homeless [One] and kept on calling--I was hungry, naked, homeless.  You did it to me.--The Bread of life and the Hungry One--but one love--only Jesus.  His humility is wonderful.  I can understand His majesty, His greatness because He is God--but His humility is beyond my understanding, because He makes Himself Bread of Life so that even a child as small as I can eat Him and live."            

 Mother Teresa, Come Be My Light

From Mother Teresa:

"The fruit of silence is prayer,

The fruit of prayer is faith,

The fruit of faith is love,

The fruit of love is service,

The fruit of service is peace." 

From Henri Nouwen:

"The character of my spiritual journey will change when I no longer think of God as hiding out and making it as difficult as possible for me to find him, but, instead as the one who is looking for me. When I look through God’s eyes at my lost self and discover God’s joy at my coming home, then my life may become less anguished and more trusting . . . 

"There is a call beyond the call to return.  It is the call to become the Father who welcomes home and calls for a celebration. . . . The hands that forgive, console, heal, and offer a festive meal must become my own. . . .

"The final stage of the spiritual life is to so fully let go of all fear of the Father that it becomes possible to become like him.  As long as the Father evokes fear, he remains an outsider and cannot dwell within me.  My final vocation is indeed to become like the Father and to live out his divine compassion in my daily life.”

From T.S. Eliot:

"And the end of all our exploring

Will be to arrive where we started,

And know the place for the first time."

Little Gidding

Notes from Address to Catholic Educators, Pope Benedict XVI (4/17/08)

"The one who seeks the truth becomes the one who lives by faith."

"Bear witness to hope.  Nourish your witness with prayer.  Account for the hope that characterizes your lives by living the truth which you propose to your students.  Help them to know and love the One you have encountered, whose truth and goodness you have experienced with joy.  With St. Augustine, let us say, 'We who speak and you who listen acknowledge ourselves as fellow disciples of a single Teacher.' "

"Truth means more than knowledge:  knowing the truth leads us to discover the good."

"The question of what [the young] can know opens up the vast adventure of what they ought to do . . . to contribute to society in a way that engenders hope in others."

From Albert Einstein:

"There are only two ways to live your life.  One is as though nothing is a miracle.  The other is as though everything is a miracle."

"The most beautiful and profound emotion we can experience is the sensation of the mystical.  It is the source of all true science. . . . To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists . . . this knowledge, this feeling is the center of true religion."