Dominican Preaching through Word and Image
God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illuminated by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond… Continue Reading “When Does God Die?”
It is a blessed thing to know that no power on earth, no temptation, no human frailty can dissolve what God holds together. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Oh, I am in awe of the maker of galaxies and geese, stars and starfish, mercury and men (male and female) . . . . Sometimes it is the humble awe of knowing that ultimately I belong to God, to the Maker whose thumb… Continue Reading “We Belong to the Maker of the Stars and Starfish”
Attending to the small thing in front of us becomes a way of self-renewal and self-refreshment. – Sharon Salzberg in Lovingkindness
Anyone who truly knows creatures may be excused from listening sermons for every creature is full of God, and is a book about God. – the Dominican mystic, Meister Eckhart
We are more infinite than we suppose. You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience. – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Any place is sacred ground, for it can become a place of encounter with the divine Presence. – David Steindl-Rast, A Listening Heart
Holy One of Blessing, Your Presence fills creation. – Rabbi Lawrence Kushner
The day of my spiritual awakening was the day I saw and knew I saw God in all things and all things in God. – Mechtild of Magdeburg Mechtild a Beguine, was a medieval mystic, who lived c. 1207 – c. 1282/1294.
Reality is permeated, indeed flooded, with divine creativity, nourishment, and care. – Marcus J. Borg, Conflict, Holiness, and Politics