Live in joyfulness. Encourage one another. Be of one mind and live in peace. And the God of love and peace will be with you.

If you do away with the accusing finger and malicious talk, if you give what is yours for the hungry, then your light will rise in the darkness and your darkest hour will be like the middle of the day.

God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of inward strength, of love and of self-control.

I run in the path of your will, O God, for you have set my heart free.

Just as each of us has one body with many parts, and the parts do not all have the same function, so in Christ we, who are many, form one body, and each of us belongs to all the others.

God says: Though the mountains be shaken and the hills be removed, my faithful love for you will not be shaken.

Jesus saw a poor widow put two small coins into the temple treasury and, calling his disciples, he said, “In truth I tell you this poor widow has put in more than all the others, for they all gave out of their wealth, but she in her poverty has put in everything she possessed, even what she needed to live on.”

Is not the bread which we break, communion in the body of Christ? Because there is only one bread, we who are many are one body.