Dominican Preaching through Word and Image
“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.
“The morning glories and the sunflowers turn naturally toward the light, but we have to be taught, it seems.”
“Gratitude celebrates life with a joyful “yes” at every knot of the great network in which everything is connected to everything.”
“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.”
“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… Continue Reading “Being Ready”
“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… Continue Reading “We Are Always Traveling”
“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?””
“A well taken care of today will pave the way for a well taken care of tomorrow.”