Ephesians 4:1-3

I, then, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to live in a manner worthy of the call you have received, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another through love, striving to preserve the unity of the spirit through the bond of peace…”

Question for Meditation: What call have you received? How can you “live in a manner worthy” of it?

Greg Robinson

“When I see myself and come to trust who God says I am – without the props of position, status, accomplishment, or duty – I am finally in a place to be a real contribution to others.”

Question for Meditation: What do you need to contribute to others?

Pope Benedict XVI

“Peace aims at the overcoming of boundaries and at the renewal of the earth through the peace that comes from God. The earth ultimately belongs to the meek, to the peaceful, the Lord tells us. It is meant to become the ‘land of the king of peace.’”

Question for Meditation: What do you think the “land of the king of peace” would look like?

Yasmin Mogahed

“Never curse a fall. The ground is where humility lives.”

Question for Meditation: Where have your “falls” landed you?

Wendell Berry

“You have to be able to imagine lives that are not yours.”

Question for Meditation: What happens when you try to imagine the life of another person?

St. Alphonsus Liguori

“He who trusts himself is lost.  He who trusts in God can do all things.”

Question for Meditation: What do you trust?

Erwin Chargaff

“It is the sense of mystery that, in my opinion, drives the true scientist; the same blind force, blindly seeing, deafly hearing, unconsciously remembering, that drives the larva into the butterfly.  If [the scientist] has not experienced, at least a few times in his life, this cold shudder down his spine, this confrontation with an immense invisible face whose breath moves him to tears, he is not a scientist.”

Question for Meditation: Have you ever been confronted by the invisible?

St. Lucy

“Those whose hearts are pure are temples of the Holy Spirit.”

Question for Meditation: What does a pure heart look like? What is your heart a temple of?

Thomas Merton

“But the man who is not afraid to admit everything that he sees to be wrong with himself, and yet recognizes that he may be the object of God’s love precisely because of his shortcomings, can begin to be sincere. His sincerity is based on confidence, not in his own illusions about himself, but in the endless, unfailing mercy of God.”

Question for Meditation: What do you have confidence in?

Colossians 3:12-13

“Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, heartfelt compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience, bearing with one another and forgiving one another, if one has a grievance against another; as the Lord has forgiven you, so must you also do.”

Question for Meditation: How can you “put on” humility today?