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Dominican Preaching through Word and Image
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
We Are Always Traveling
“In one sense we are always traveling, and traveling as if we did not know where we were going. In another sense we have already arrived. We cannot arrive at the perfect possession of God in this life, and that is why we are traveling and in darkness. But we already possess Him by grace, and therefore, in that sense, we have arrived and are dwelling in the light. But oh! How far have I to go to find You in Whom I have already arrived!”
- Thomas Merton, Seven Story Mountain
We Need Curiosity
“As spiritual practitioners we need to have some curiosity about the unknown. When unexplored territory frightens us, we need to ask ourselves, “Where’s our sense of adventure?””
- Elizabeth Mattis Namgyel, “Open Stillness”
Take Care of This Day
“A well taken care of today will pave the way for a well taken care of tomorrow.”
- Sri Swami Satchidananda
Every Hour a Miracle
“To me, every hour of the light and dark is a miracle.”
- Walt Whitman
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