In response to a call for submissions, readers of NACC Now have contributed the quotes they favor as email signature lines:

Submitted by: Ann-Marie Lemire, M.A., BCC
Chaplain
Spiritual Care Services
Sacred Heart Medical Center

Wisdom is well known when it is no longer seen or thought of, only then is understanding bearable.
Thomas Merton

Submitted by: Jan Izzo
Board Certified Chaplain
Winfield, IL

Blessing life may be more about learning how to celebrate life than learning how to fix life.
Rachel Naomi Remen, M.D.

Submitted by: Dr. Daniel Schroeder, MABMH, MAPT
Chaplain Resident (CPE)
Roper-St. Francis Healthcare
Charleston, SC

The important thing is not to think much but to love much, and so do that which best stirs you to love.
St. Teresa of Avila

Let nothing trouble you, let nothing make you afraid. All things pass away. God never changes. Patience obtains everything. God alone is enough.
St. Teresa of Avila

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead to where there is no path and leave a trail.
Muriel Strode

It's the action, not the fruit of the action, that's important. You have to do the right thing. It may not be in your power, may not be in your time, that there'll be any fruit. But that doesn't mean you stop doing the right thing. You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no result.
Gandhi

Have no fear for what tomorrow may bring. The same loving God who cares for you today will take care of you tomorrow and every day. God will either shield you from suffering or give you unfailing strength to bear it. Be at peace then, and put aside all anxious thoughts and imaginations.
St. Francis De Sales

May the Peace of the Almighty Creator-God of the Universe calm your Spirit; May the Joy of Christ's Resurrection excite your Soul; May the Beauty of God's creation tickle your Heart; May the Love of God's created - your brothers and sisters - envelope your Walk; May the Spirituality embedded in you before your earthly birth, guide you Home.
© 2007 Daniel Schroeder

Submitted by: Connie Johnstone MFA, MTS
Board Certified Chaplain (NACC)
SJMC-CHW
Stockton, CA 95213-9008

Don't ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
Harold Whitman

Submitted by: Sister Bridget C. Zanin
Board Certified Chaplain (NACC)
Chicago, IL

God does not call the qualified; God qualifies the called.

Submitted by: Mary Jo Zacher, BCC
Pastoral Care Manager
Peoria, IL 61615-1807

Keep your eyes open for a special blessing from God today...He has something special planned for you!

Submitted by: Robert Mundle, STM, MDiv, BCC
Chaplain
Toronto, Ontario

What is most personal and unique in each of us is probably the very element which would, if it were shared or expressed, speak most deeply to others.
Carl Rogers, Psychologist (1902-1987)

Submitted by: Sister Brenda L. Whelan, RSM, BCC
Buffalo, New York

Nothing teaches compassion more than standing with a soul who has lost part of itself.

Submitted by: Fr. Basil G. Royston, BCC
Sunnyvale, California

. . . As a shepherd once so rightly said, although heaven knows where he learned it, one can show no greater respect than to weep for a stranger.
José Saramago (1922)

Submitted by: Linda Piotrowski, BCC
Lebanon, New Hampshire

Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.
Pope John XXIII

Submitted by: Sarah Carlson
Alegent Health

Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.

Submitted by: Austine Duru
Chicago, Illinois

Tell me, and I'll forget. Show me, and I'll remember. Involve me, and I'll learn.
Marla Jones

Without involvement, there is no commitment. Mark it down, asterisk it, circle it, underline it. No involvement, no commitment.
Stephen Covey

War is a poor tool for fashioning a peaceful tomorrow.
Martin Luther King, Jr.