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Dominican Preaching through Word and Image
Category: Hope / Healing
Wednesday of Hope – I Believe that People Are Good
It’s really a wonder that I haven’t dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart – Anne Frank, The… Continue Reading “Wednesday of Hope – I Believe that People Are Good”
Wednesday of Hope – Hold Fast to Dreams
Hold fast to dreams, For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird, That cannot fly. – Langston Hughes
Wednesday of Hope – Nothing is Hopeless
When you say a situation or a person is hopeless, you are slamming the door in the face of God. – Charles L. Allen
Wednesday of Hope – Courage to Fail
Success is not final, failure is not fatal; it is the courage to continue that counts. – Winston Churchill
Wednesday of Hope – Humor and Perspective
The only thing I can recommend at this stage is a sense of humor, an ability to see things in their ridiculous and absurd dimensions, to laugh at others and at ourselves, a sense of irony regarding everything that calls out for parody in… Continue Reading “Wednesday of Hope – Humor and Perspective”
Wednesday of Hope – Wait
I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope For hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love, For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith But the faith and the love and the… Continue Reading “Wednesday of Hope – Wait”
Wednesday of Hope – Dance Anyway
No despair of ours can alter the reality of things, or stain the joy of the cosmic dance which is always there. Indeed we are in the midst of it, and it is in the midst of us, for it beats in our very… Continue Reading “Wednesday of Hope – Dance Anyway”
Wednesday of Hope – Go and Create Something
In a time of destruction, create something: a poem, a parade, a community, a school, a vow, a moral principle; one peaceful moment. – Maxine Hong Kingston
Wednesday of Hope – Trusting the Chaos
Whenever there is chaos, it creates wonderful thinking. I consider chaos a gift. – Septima Clark
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