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Dominican Preaching through Word and Image
Always Miracles
“To me, every hour of the light and dark is a miracle.”
- Walt Whitman
Where Is God Born?
“God is born in us whenever we begin to live without a why…like the rose which lives without a why. “
- Meister Eckhart
Hello
“Hello, sun in my face. Hello, you who made the morning and spread it over the fields … Watch, now, how I start the day in happiness, in kindness. “
- Mary Oliver
Are You a Friend of Silence
“God is the friend of silence. We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. See how nature — trees, flowers, grass — grows in silence; see the stars, the moon, and the sun, how they move in silence.
- Mother Teresa
Unnamable God
“Unnamable God, I feel you with me at every moment. You are my food, my drink, my sunlight, and the air I breathe… In your presence there is fullness of joy, and blessedness forever and ever.
- From Psalm 16, trans. Stephen Mitchell
Turning to the Light
“The morning glories and the sunflowers turn naturally toward the light, but we have to be taught, it seems.”
- Richard Rohr
A Joyful “Yes”
“Gratitude celebrates life with a joyful “yes” at every knot of the great network in which everything is connected to everything.”
- David Steindl-Rast
Importance of Imagination
“Let death be what takes us, not lack of imagination.”
- B.J. Miller
When to Let Go of the Dream
“Those who love their dream of a Christian community more than they love the Christian community itself become destroyers of that Christian community even though their personal intentions may be ever so honest, earnest, and sacrificial.”
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Being Ready
“I used to believe that if I prepared hard enough and long enough, I would be ready when I needed to be. But now I think the closest any of us really get to being ready is feeling not ready and then doing it anyway.”
- Gabriel Andreas, StoryPeople
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