Sura 41:34

“Good and Evil deeds are not equal. Repel evil with what is better. Then you will see that one who was once your enemy has become your dearest friend.”

Question for Meditation: Who do you need to look at in a better way?

Lamar Boschman

“When I worship, I’d rather my heart be without words than my words without heart.”

Question for Meditation: What does true worship look like to you?

Matthew 5:43-45

“‘You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be children of your Father in heaven.”

Question for Meditation: Who do you need to pray for?

Mary Oliver

“My work is loving the world.”

Question for Meditation: What is your work?

Swami Vivekananda

“The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and God will be in them.”

Question for Meditation: Where do you experience God when you do good?

St. Therese of Lisieux

“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 with which we do them.”

Question for Meditation: How do your actions show love?

al-Tirmidhi

“You shall never enter paradise unless you believe; and you will not believe unless you love one another.”

Question for Meditation: How are love and belief connected for you?

Rule of St. Benedict 27:8-9

“He is to imitate the loving example of the Good Shepherd who left the ninety-nine sheep in the mountains and went in search of the one sheep that had strayed. So great was his compassion of its weakness that he mercifully placed it on his sacred shoulders and so carried it back to the flock (Luke 15:5).”

Question for Meditation: How can you imitate the Good Shepherd?

 

1 John 4:20-21

“If anyone says, ‘I love God,’ but hates his brother, he is a liar; for whoever does not love a brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen. This is the commandment we have from him: whoever loves God must also love his brother.”

Question for Meditation: Which brother or sister do you need to love like God loves?

Anne Frank

“No one has ever become poor by giving.”

Question for Meditation: How do you think about giving? How do you need to re-frame it?