"Remember those who are in prison, as though you were in prison with them; those who are being tortured, as though you yourselves were being tortured."

- Hebrews 13:3, NRSV

“For grace to be grace, it must give us things we didn't know we needed and take us places where we didn't know we didn't want to go. As we stumble through the crazily altered landscape of our lives, we find that God is enjoying our attention as never before.”

- Kathleen Norris, from Acedia & Me: A Marriage, Monks, and a Writer's Life

"One of the principle rules of religion is to lose no occasion of serving God. And since [God] is invisible to our eyes, we are to serve [God] in our neighbor; which [the Lord] receives as if done to [Godself] in person, standing visibly before us."

John Wesley