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Dominican Preaching through Word and Image
Nature
My religion is nature. That’s what arouses those feelings of wonder and mysticism and gratitude in me.
- Oliver Sacks
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Our Success Depends on Others
No one who achieves success does so without the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.
- Alfred North Whitehead
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Everyday Epiphanies
Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life…and the world.
- Sarah Ban Breathnach
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Gratitude is Twofold
Gratitude is twofold – love coming to visit us and love running out to greet a welcome guest.
- Henry Van Dyke
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Touching Heaven
To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven.
- Johannes A. Gaertner
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Choosing Gratitude
Gratitude as a discipline involves a conscious choice. I can choose to be grateful even when my emotions and feelings are still steeped in hurt and resentment. It is amazing how many occasions present themselves in which I can choose gratitude instead of a complaint.
- Henri Nouwen
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Complete Prayer
A single grateful thought toward heaven is the most complete prayer.
- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
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Seasons of Our Lives
Life meanders like a path through the woods. We have seasons when we flourish and seasons when the leaves fall from us, revealing our bare bones. Given time, they grow again.
- Katherine May
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The Velvet Red Maple
They say life is a cruel thing, but they haven’t seen the velvet red maple tree in my front yard with the wind in its hair and all the leaves dancing.
- Gabriel Andreas, StoryPeople
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Autumn Beauty
On a bare branch
a crow settles
in autumn dusk
- Basho
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