David Garza

“If we are able to enter the church day and night and implore God to hear our prayers, how careful we should be to hear and grant the petitions of our neighbor in need. — St. John the Almoner”
― Paul Thigpen, My Daily Catholic Bible: 20 Minute Daily Readings

“No specification is necessary—to add or subtract or divide is in vain. Little or big, learned or unlearned, white or black, legal or illegal, sick or well, from the first inspiration down the windpipe to the last expiration out of it, all that a male or female does that is vigorous and benevolent and clean is so much sure profit to him or her in the unshakable order of the universe and through the whole scope of it for ever.”
― Walt Whitman, Poems by Walt Whitman

“The wolves knew when it was time to stop looking for what they'd lost, to focus instead on what was yet to come.”
― Jodi Picoult, Lone Wolf

“Because so many of us are now avid volunteers for a project in which we were all once dutiful conscripts, we have heightened expectations of what children will do for us, regarding them as sources of existential fulfillment rather than as ordinary parts of our lives.”
― Jennifer Senior, All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood