Featured Quotes

“That is one good thing about this world… there are sure to always be more Springs.”

Lucy Maud Montgomery

“It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart.” - Rainer Maria Rilke

“Our lord has written the promise of resurrection not in books alone, but in every leaf of springtime.” — Martin Luther

“Look for something positive in each day, even if some days you have to look a little harder”-Oprah W

“Every moment is a fresh beginning.” — T. S. Eliot

"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” — Walt Disney

“Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.” — Camille Pissarro

“My view is that reconciliation is a way of life and requires work every day. Reconciliation is getting to know each other." — Mary Simon, Governor General of Canada

“All of our humanity is dependent upon recognizing the humanity in others.“ — Archbishop Desmond Tutu

”The summer night is like a perfection of thought.” — Wallace Stevens

“You have to sniff out Joy. Keep your nose to the Joy trail.” — Buffy Sainte-Marie

“Every sunset brings the promise of new dawn.“ — Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Happiness, I have grasped, is a destination, like strawberry fields. Once you find the way in, there you are, and you'll never feel low again.” — Rachel Simon

“Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.“ — Dalai Lama

"If we have no Peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other." — Mother Teresa

“Education is what got us here, and Education is what will get us out.” — Honourable Justice Murray Sinclair, Retired Senator and Former Chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission

“You cannot go through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.“ — Jane Goodall

“Pentecost is the moment when a heart of stone is shattered and a heart of flesh takes its place.” — Father Raniero Cantalomessa

“If you dance like raindrops, there will always be sunshine.” — Curtis Tyrone Jones

“A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take.“ — Cardinal Mermillod

“A beautiful Heart, like the rays of the Sun, touches many.“ — Chinese Proverb

“In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways and they're still beautiful.“ — Alice Walker

“Dear old world... you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you.“ — Lucy Maud Montgomery

“To be called a refugee is the opposite of an insult; it is a badge of strength, courage, and victory.” — Tennessee Office for Refugees

“God’s mercy is fresh and new every morning.” — Joyce Meyer

A day without prayer is a day without blessing, and a life without prayer is a life without power. — Edwin Harvey

“Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.” — Martin Luther King Jr.

“Know the past, shape the future.” — Black Chapter, Centre Dufferin District High School

“Lo, your king comes to you; triumphant and victorious is he, humble and riding on a donkey” — Zechariah 9:9

All will be well, and all shall be well and all manner of things shall be well. — Julian of Norwich

Jesus is a friend who knows all your faults and still loves you anyway. — God's Little Devotional Book

“To gaze into another person's face is to do two things: to recognize their humanity and to assert your own.” — Lawrence Hill

One day you're waiting for the sky to fall. The next you're dazzled by the beauty of it all. — Bruce Cockburn

There is always light, if only we’re brave enough to see it. If only we’re brave enough to be it. — Amanda Gorman

God is home. We live in the Far Country. — Meister Eckhart

Small things start us in new ways of thinking. — V.S. Naipaul

God - One on whom our hearts rely,

the fully shared life at the heart of the universe.

Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my thoughts.

Peace on Earth and Good Will to All People.

Be joyful - though you have considered the facts.

We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace

Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.

just as you did it to one of the least of these who are members of my family,you did it to me.

Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now.

You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love. Leo Tolstoy

Compassion is the heartbeat of humanity.

We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe.

What really is our ministry?

From Gary and Jennifer’s Home

I shall spend every moment loving.

Holy the supernatural extra brilliant intelligent kindness of the soul! Allen Ginsberg

“To hold a vigil is simply to stand in solidarity and offer others our graced attention.” — Rev. Dr. Candice Bist

Bless what there is, for being. Brother Steindl-Rast

Bernard of Clairvaux

Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.

John Milton