Meditation: "Fools say in their hearts, 'There is no God.'"

-The Psalmist

Meditation: "Attention animated by desire is the whole foundation of religious practices."

-Simone Weil

Meditation: "See what great love God has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are."

-The Apostle John

Meditation: "You can sing pretty, but there's a different way to sing if you want to call out to gods or cry out to the Spirit or disrupt the weather."

-Cary Ann from Shovels and Rope

Meditation: "There is no worldly reward for our spiritual efforts. There isn't even a connection. The payoff for turning to God is more God, not more world."

-Hugh Prather

Meditation: "Self-rejection is the greatest enemy of the spiritual life because it contradicts the sacred voice that calls us the "Beloved".

-Henri Nouwen

Meditation: "It is not your responsibility to finish the work of perfecting the world, but you are not free to desist from it either."

-Rabbi Tarfon

Meditation: "Pay attention. Stay awake and totally alert. See with receptive eyes and discover a world of ceaseless wonders."

-Fredric and Mary Brussat

Meditation: "Being listened to is so close to being loved that most people cannot tell the difference."

-David Oxbury Augsberg

Meditation: "Faith sees the invisible believes the unbelievable and receives the impossible,"

-Corrie Ten Boom