Jesus said to her, “Your brother will rise.” Martha said to him, “I know he will rise, in the resurrection on the last day.” Jesus told her, “I am the resurrection and the life; whoever believes in me, even if he dies, will live, and…

My soul, be at rest in God alone, from whom comes my hope. God alone is my rock and my salvation, my fortress; I shall not fall.   — Psalm 62:6-7 

The poet enters into himself in order to create. The contemplative enters into God in order to be created.   — Thomas Merton  

I thank you, Lord, with all my heart; in the presence of the angels to you I sing. … On the day I cried out, you answered; you strengthened my spirit. — Psalm 138:1, 3

The Eucharist is “the source and summit of the Christian life.” Catechism of the Catholic Church, paragraph 1324

I must also pray, she said, for the conversion of sinners. I asked her many times what she meant by that, but she only smiled. — St. Bernadette Soubirous

In the same way, the Spirit too comes to the aid of our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we ought, but the Spirit itself intercedes with inexpressible groanings. — Romans 8:26

We were born to love, we live to love, and we will die to love still more. — St. Joseph Cafasso

We ascend to the heights of contemplation by the steps of the active life. — Pope St. Gregory I

Life is given that we may learn to die well, and we never think of it! To die well we must live well. — St. John Vianney