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Dominican Preaching through Word and Image
Wednesday of Hope – Fill the World with Hope
The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.
― Barack Obama
Where is Beauty?
People often say that “beauty is in the eye of the beholder,” and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves.
– Salma Hayek
Wednesday of Hope – Hope is not a Fairytale
Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.
― G.K. Chesterton
The Heart of Wonder
May you experience each day as a sacred gift woven around the heart of wonder.
– John O’Donohue
Wednesday of Hope – It Is Never Hopeless
When you say a situation or a person is hopeless, you are slamming the door in the face of God.
– Charles L. Allen
The Soil of Contemplation
What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.
– Meister Eckhart
Wednesday of Hope – The Need for 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 this world. In other words, I can only recommend perspective and distance.
― Václav Havel
The Spiritual Journey
And the world cannot be discovered by a journey of miles,
no matter how long,
but only by a spiritual journey,
a journey of one inch,
very arduous and humbling and joyful,
by which we arrive at the ground at our feet,
and learn to be at home.
– Wendell Berry
Wednesday of Hope – Infinite Hope
During the month of May, I will be using black and white photography.
We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
The Miracle of Each Minute
The only way to live is to accept each minute as an unrepeatable miracle.
– Margaret Storm Jameson
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