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Dominican Preaching through Word and Image
Grateful – That God Holds It All Together
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
Where Is God?
God is at home, it’s we who have gone out for a walk.
– Meister Eckhart
The Grandeur of God
The world is charged with the grandeur of God. It will flame out, like shining from shook foil; It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil.
– Gerard Manley Hopkins from God’s Grandeur
A Thought on Memorial Day
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.
– Dwight D. Eisenhower
Opposites Are Not Always What They Seem
The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it’s indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it’s indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it’s indifference.
– Elie Wiesel
The Well is Deep
There is a really deep well inside me. And in it dwells God. Sometimes I am there too. But more often stones and grit block the well, and God is buried beneath. Then God must be dug out again.
– Etty Hillesum, from The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum 1941-1943
Let’s Stop Squeezing
The tighter you squeeze, the less you have.
– A zen saying
Wisdom from the Poet Maya Angelou
Everyone born comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory. We come from the Creator with creativity.
– Maya Angelou
More on Kindness
Every act of kindness, courageously offered, however small, is a small flower sown in a field of peace.
• Wayne Muller in Learning to Pray
Share a Kind Word Today
A kind word is like a spring day.
• Russian Proverb
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