“When the power of love beats the love of power the ‌world knows peace.” #PrayForAmerica www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

"There is no time to complain. There is work to be done...This will only be a happy anniversary if we emerge committed to a more just, a more perfect union in the next 250 years." #America250 #PrayForAmerica www.ncronline.org/opinion/edit...

"People with clenched fists cannot shake hands." #IndiraGandhi

"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." #DrSeuss

“All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.” #USConstitution #FourteenthAmendment #America250 #PrayForAmerica

"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world." #AnneFrank

"An honest public servant can’t become rich in politics. he can only attain greatness and satisfaction by service….I would much rather be an honorable public servant and known as such than to be the richest man in the world." #HarrySTruman #America250 #PrayForAmerica

"Immigration policy is a moral question that cannot be separated from decisions of what is right and wrong, of justice and injustice. It is about respecting and reverencing the dignity of the human person (2018)." #CardinalSean #America250 #PrayForAmerica assisiproject.com

"The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny." #JamesMadison #America250 #PrayForAmerica

"Our efforts must aim at restoring hope, righting wrongs, maintaining commitments, and thus promoting the well-being of individuals and peoples." #PopeFrancis #Fraternity #Solidarity

“This will devastate our church." #PrayForAmerica www.christianitytoday.com/2026/06/scot...

"Sister Letty was on her way to Sunday Mass when she was detained by ICE." #PrayForAmerica www.krgv.com/news/valley-...

"Love only bears fruit in self-giving: when we are willing to lose a little of ourselves to make room for another; to lose a little time to listen to a friend; to lose a little comfort to share in a time of hardship (6-28-26)." #PopeLeoXIV #LiveTheGospel #LoveEachOther

"What we do not fully forgive, O Lord, help us fully forgive, so that for your sake, we may truly love our enemies and intercede devoutly for them with you, thereby rendering no evil for evil, but rather striving with you to do good to all people." #SaintFrancisOfAssisi #LiveTheGospel #LoveEachOther

"We are on pilgrimage, trying to reach our Father, trying to live a life of love." #LiveTheGospel #ShareGodsLove #RebuildMyChurch assisiproject.com/mission

"War is not caused by hunger or by need. It is the powerful and the rich who make war (1962)." #ThomasMerton #PrayForPeace

"Let us love the Lord God with all our hearts and all our souls, with all our minds, and all our strength, with fortitude and total understanding, with all of our powers, with every effort, ever affection, every emotion, every desire, and every wish." #SaintFrancisOfAssisi

"In the United States, we say, 'In God we trust', but our faith in God is a faith made to love others, to support others — especially the vulnerable people." #PrayForAmerica #LiveTheGospel #LoveEachOther www.ncronline.org/news/injusti...

"God demands of us real courage: the courage to be more powerful than evil by loving everyone, even our enemies." #PopeFrancis #Courage #LoveEachOther

"War is never worthy of humanity." #PopeLeoXIV #PrayForPeace www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...

"Courage! God asks of us only our goodwill. His grace does the rest." #SaintTheophaneVenard #Courage

"We know that peace will not come from walls, tunnels, or prisons." #MaozInon #TheFutureIsPeace #MakePeace #PrayForPeace

Now more than ever, let's pray together! #PrayTogether #FranciscanNightPrayer assisiproject.com/prayer

“Salvation is not an abstract idea, but begins with the concrete action of healing the wounds of those who suffer.” #PopeLeoXIV www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...

"To give oneself to others, eliminating distances, dwelling in littleness, and living the reality of one's everyday life: this is exquisitely divine." #PopeFrancis

“Conflicts are ‘fed’ more readily than people are nourished. This reality reflects not only operational shortcomings but also a fundamental imbalance in political and moral priorities." #PopeLeoXIV #FeedGodsChildren

"To be attracted by power, by grandeur, and by appearances it tragically human. It is a great temptation that tries to insinuate itself everywhere." #PopeFrancis

"To be opaque and dense with opinion, with passion, with need, with hate, with power, is to not be there, to be absent, to not exist." #ThomasMerton

"No one can turn a blind eye to those who are seeking protection and safety. I urge everyone to welcome those who are victims of persecution so that they may live in peace, with dignity, and look to the future with hope." #PopeLeoXIV www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...

"We tend to think that when the Church is talking about morality that the only issue of morality is sexual; and in reality, there are much greater issues (6-20-26)." #PopeLeoXIV #LiveTheGospel #ShareGodsLove #RebuildMyChurch #Freedom #Justice #Equality

"In making our way through life, we are guided by simplicity, humility, and littleness rather than by power, prestige, and status." assisiproject.com/mission

"Enough with words of hate, enough with insults, enough with bullying, and enough with all those things that wage war between peoples, between communities, and between countries (6-20-26).” #PopeLeoXIV #LiveTheGospel #LoveEachOther #PrayForPeace

Prayer is protest. #PrayForPeace #RosaryForPeace assisiproject.com/resources

"With love, we must speak against wrong." #AMonk #MountAthos

"Only the love of God can provide us with true and perfect joy.” #PopeLeoXIV #SaintFrancisOfAssisi #LiveTheGospel #ShareGodsLove #PrayForPeace www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...

By its very nature, lying is to be condemned (CCC 2485). #PrayForAmerica

"Christian spirituality proposes an alternative understanding of the quality of life; one that encourages a prophetic and contemplative lifestyle, one capable of deep enjoyment free from the obsession with consumption....It is the conviction that less is more." #PopeFrancis #LiveTheGospel #BeSimple

"Failing to see the humanity in all people puts us all on a slippery slope. And once that slide starts, there's no telling where it stops. A dangerous precedent that flies in the very face of our faith." #MichelleObama #PrayForAmerica

Reading is resistance. #MakePeace #PrayForPeace

"The Bible keeps speaking about the orphan, the widow and the stranger. We are called to be kind, just and helpful.” #CardinalNapier #LiveTheGospel www.vaticannews.va/en/africa/ne...

"Never let your fear put your dreams to sleep (6-18-26)." #StevieWonder #PrayForAmerica

"No one has the right to sit in judgment of who is American enough." #MichelleObama #PrayForAmerica

"That is the true genius of America—a faith in simple dreams, an insistence on small miracles." #BarackObama #Hope

"It just creates more harm and more hurt and more victims in a system of violence where violence begets more violence.” #PrayForAmerica www.vaticannews.va/en/church/ne...

"Jesus Christ loves you. He gave his life to save you. He now lives at your side every day to enlighten, strengthen, and free you." #PopeFrancis

"Silence is not neutral. Silence is apathy. It is indifference. It affirms. It empowers. It excuses. Silence speaks volumes. Silence can be a virtue. It can also be a vice. And in the face of injustice, silence is sinful." #BrotherPatrick #MomentForTruth assisiproject.com/resources

"He will declare defeats victories. He will call darkness light, and depths heights. He will gain nothing and call it everything. He will lose everything and call it nothing." #MichaelDOBrien #PrayForAmerica

"In contemplating the pierced heart of the Lord...we too are inspired to be more attentive to the sufferings and needs of others, and confirmed in our efforts to share in his work of liberation as instruments for the spread of his love." #PopeFrancis #DelixitNos www.ncronline.org/opinion/gues...

"Hope and faith are the best acts of resistance we can offer." #AzizAbuSarah #TheFutureIsPeace

Now more than ever, let's pray together! #OurDailyPrayers #PrayTogether assisiproject.com/prayer