epigraph

Short quotation at the beginning of an article; sometimes these are used at the start of Episcopal Church department newsletters. Per Chicago Manual of Style, don’t use quotation marks, and include the author’s name (title of the work is also often included), preceded by an em dash. The source line typically is separate. Depending on layout, epigraphs may also be indented and/or italicized.

For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life. 
–John 3:16

Too often the price exacted by society for security and respectability is that the Christian movement in its formal expression must be on the side of the strong against the weak.
–Howard Thurman, “Jesus and the Disinherited”