“Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.”  
―     Carl Sagan,     The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark 

“The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.”  
―     Anaïs Nin

“The moment God is figured out with nice neat lines and definitions, we are no longer dealing with God.”  
―     Rob Bell,     Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith 

“My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.”  
―     Albert Einstein

“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.”  
―     Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

 “A sacrifice, to be real must cost, must hurt, and must empty ourselves. Give yourself fully to God.  He will use you to accomplish great things on the condition that you believe much more in his love than in your weakness.” 
―  Mother Teresa

“It takes three to make love, not two: you, your spouse, and God. Without God people only succeed in bringing out the worst in one another. Lovers who have nothing else to do but love each other soon find there is nothing else. Without a central loyalty life is unfinished.”  
―     Fulton J. Sheen,     Seven Words of Jesus and Mary: Lessons from Cana and Calvary

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim
Because it was grassy and wanted wear,
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

¹ Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,

² As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:

³ If so be ye have tasted that the Lord [is] gracious.

⁴ To whom coming, [as unto] a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, [and] precious,

⁵ Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.

⁶ Wherefore also it is contained in the scripture, Behold, I lay in Sion a chief corner stone, elect, precious: and he that believeth on him shall not be confounded.

⁷ Unto you therefore which believe [he is] precious: but unto them which be disobedient, the stone which the builders disallowed, the same is made the head of the corner,

⁸ And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence, [even to them] which stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed.

⁹ But ye [are] a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:

¹⁰ Which in time past [were] not a people, but [are] now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.

¹¹ Dearly beloved, I beseech [you] as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

¹² Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by [your] good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.

¹³ Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme;

¹⁴ Or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers, and for the praise of them that do well.

¹⁵ For so is the will of God, that with well doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men:

¹⁶ As free, and not using [your] liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.

¹⁷ Honour all [men]. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king.

¹⁸ Servants, [be] subject to [your] masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward.

¹⁹ For this [is] thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully.

²⁰ For what glory [is it], if, when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye shall take it patiently? but if, when ye do well, and suffer [for it], ye take it patiently, this [is] acceptable with God.

²¹ For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps:

²² Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth:

²³ Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed [himself] to him that judgeth righteously:

²⁴ Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.

²⁵ For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.

Jesus, gentle Shepherd,
bless Thy lamb to-day; 
Keep me in Thy footsteps,
Never let me stray.
Guard me through the daytime.
Every hour, I pray;  
Keep my feet from straying  
From the narrow way. Amen.

ALL PRAISE TO THEE:

All praise to Thee,
my God, this night
For all the blessings of the light:
Keep me, O keep me,
King of kings,
Beneath Thine own almighty wings.
Amen.