Soul Scribe

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

Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta

We get so caught up in the nitty gritty of rules and judgments that we forget.

 It’s not about the rules.

It’s about how you treat people.  It’s about finding that person in the corner and finding out who they are.  It’s walking the talk and how you live each day.  What kind of good did you do today?

You can be the most conscientious follower of religious practices and still not be who God wants you to be.

Don’t get me wrong.  Religion is important, but it’s not for show or the motions.  You’ve got to live it, not just attend it.

Religion is making our path to a relationship with God, as individuals and also community.  Everyday religion requires commitment that less and less people have time for nowadays.

We marginalize people for many reasons – they look different; they act different; they live different; they don’t look, act or live how we want them to live.  We forget that some people are even there.

Open your eyes and see all those around you as God does.  God sees each of us.  He really sees – not just the surface, but deep down into the soul.

If we really look at one another and see, we can make a difference.

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

If  you want others to be happy,
practice compassion.

If you want to be happy,
practice compassion.

The Dalai Lama

Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love, but to use any violence to get what it wants.

Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta

Do something good for someone you like least today.

St. Anthony of Padua, 1195-1231

In the end, dear friend, it is always between us and God, not between us and them.

Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta

God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go through it, not without pain but without stain.

C.S. Lewis

You know well enough that Our Lord does not look so much at the greatness of our actions, nor even at their difficulty, but at the love at which we do them.

St. Therese of Lisieux, The Little Flower (1873-1897)