Something precious is lost if we rush headlong into the details of life without pausing for a moment to pay homage to the mystery of life and the gift of another day.
– Kent Nerburn
It is a good thing to pause for a moment with a friend
People are like stained glass windows: They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light within.
– Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
Stained glass window in the cathedral in Chartres, France
Fire of the Holy Spirit, life of the life of every creature, holy are you in giving life to forms. Rivers spring forth from the waters; earth wears her green vigor.
– Hildegard of Bingen
Does anything capture the green vigor of nature as the emerald green of Ireland?
Dive deeply into the miracle of life and let the tips of your wings be burnt by the flame, let your feet be lacerated by the thorns, let your heart be stirred by human emotion, and let your soul be lifted beyond the earth.
The Creator of these flowers is too difficult NOT to believe in
God is not too hard to believe in. God is too good to believe in, we being such strangers to such goodness. The love of God is to me absolutely overwhelming.
– Rev. William Sloane Coffin, “Religion and Ethics”, Newsweekly, 8/27/04
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