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Dominican Preaching through Word and Image
To Be Alive
I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable…but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.
- Agatha Christi
The Proper Place of Peace
While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.
- St. Francis of Assisi
One or Two Steps?
Don’t be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can’t cross a chasm in two small jumps.
- David Lloyd George
Faith Is
Faith is only found when needed,
only real when used.
Until then it is a seed . . .
- Judith A. Hartley
Shaping the Mind
As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds.
- The Buddha
A Strong Mind
If you have a strong mind and plant in it a firm resolve, you can change your destiny.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
Just Living
“Just living is not enough,” said the butterfly, “one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower.
- Hans Christian Anderson
Celebrating Wildflowers
For me, celebrating the wildflowers or the birds is like a kind of worship.
- Michael Longley
Watering
Learn to selectively water the positive seeds and flowers in you by attending to them. There are enough weeds. You don’t have to encourage them.
- Thomas Bien, Water the Flowers, Not the Weeds
The Blossom
We are always interested in the flower, but not the tedium of the blossoming. But that process from bud to blossom is when things really happen.
- Author Unknown
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