Soul Scribe

We know that every effort to better society, especially where injustice and sin are so ingrained, is an effort that God blesses, that God wants, that God demands of us.

Archbishop Oscar Romero

March 24, 1980

Last homily before he was martyred for the people of El Salvador

“Hope” is the thing with feathers —

That perches in the soul —

And sings the tune without the words —

And never stops — at all —

Emily Dickinson

Stand by the roads and look, ask for the ancient path, which is the way to good.  Walk on it and find rest for your soul.

Jeremiah 6:16

Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

If we pray, we will believe.
If we believe, we will love.
If we love, we will serve.

Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta

Every moment and every event of every man’s life on earth plants something in his soul.

Thomas Merton

Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.

Chinese Proverb

For children are innocent and love justice, while most of us are wicked and naturally prefer mercy.

G.K. Chesterton

He is not wise to me who is wise in words only, but he who is wise in deeds.

St. Gregory

If you have men who will exclude any of God’s creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men. 

St. Francis of Assisi