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When we breathe, we do not stop inhaling because we have taken in all the oxygen we will ever need, but because we have all the oxygen we need for this breath. Then we exhale, release carbon dioxide, and make room for more oxygen. Sabbath, like the breath, allows us to imagine we have done enough work for this day. Do not be anxious about tomorrow, Jesus said again and again. Let the work of this day be sufficient. — Wayne Muller

Are you familiar with the picture of the Good Shepherd Jesus? You know, the one where he is wearing a beautiful white robe, with a perfectly scrubbed, gentle little lamb lounging across his shoulders as he brings it home? That picture is wrong. A lamb in that situation would not look good or smell good, and neither would Jesus. They would both be scratched and sweaty and have brambles in their hair. They would be exhausted and filthy. That is simply how it is when we are at last on our way home. — Desmond Tutu, then Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, South Africa, in comments celebrating communion in a women’s prison north of New York City

To be sane in a mad time Is bad for the brain, worse For the heart. The world Is a holy vision, had we clarity To see it — Wendell Berry

You use steel to sharpen steel, and one friend sharpens another. — Proverbs 27:17, The Message

I want to go on record as saying that this is the stupidest, most irresponsible action a diplomatic mission like ours could get itself involved in, and that we've started a series of these things that will never end. — Deane Hinton, former Central Intelligence Agency operative in Syria, 1949, who was expelled from a “political action committee” group planning a coup against the Syrian government elected in 1947

Evangelistic appeal. If they come running like hogs after slop, it ain’t the gospel. — Theron Price

There is a difference between being nice and choosing kindness. — anonymous

Authority is exercised by standing with others by seeking to share power and authority. Power is seen as something to be multiplied and shared rather than accumulated at the top. A leader is one who inspires others to be leaders, especially those on the margins of church and society who do not think they are "somebody.” — Letty M. Russell

Being means: not numbering and counting, but ripening like a tree, which doesn’t force its sap, and stands confidently in the storms of spring, not afraid that afterward summer may not come. It does come. But it comes only to those who are patient, who are there as if eternity lay before them, so unconcernedly silent and vast. I learn it every day of my life, learn it with pain I am grateful for: patience is everything! — Rainer Maria Rilke

What I really enjoy is not you; it’s something that’s greater than both you and me. It is ​something that I discovered, a kind of symphony, a kind of orchestra that plays one melody in your presence, but when you depart, the orchestra doesn’t stop. When I meet someone else, it plays another melody, which is also very delightful. And when I’m alone, it continues to play. There’s a greater repertoire and it never cease to play. — Anthony DeMello