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Dominican Preaching through Word and Image
How It Got This Way
“The situation the Earth is in today has been created by unmindful production and unmindful consumption.”
- Thich Nhat Hanh
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Easter Resurrection Within
“Our task is to take this earth so deeply and wholly into ourselves that it will resurrect within our being.”
- Rainer Maria Rilke
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Good Friday Thoughts
“Pain is the plow that tears up our hearts to make us open to truth. If it were not for suffering, we would never recognize our guilt, our godlessness, and the crying injustice of the human condition.”
- Eberhard Arnold
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The Tension of Hope
“Hope is holding a creative tension between what is and what could and should be, each day doing something to narrow the distance between the two.”
- Parker Palmer
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Let’s Fall in Love with Creation
“If we fall in love with creation deeper and deeper, we will respond to its endangerment with passion.”
- Hildegard of Bingen
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I = We
“In biology, every ‘I’ has been enabled by a ‘we.’”
- Andreas Weber
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Consider the Lilies
“Consider the lilies of the field, my friend — their beauty as well as their impermanence. Their lack of competition. Their stunning diversity. Let’s imagine a world with fewer thrones, more fields.”
- Rev. Kyndall Rae Rothaus, Thy Queendom Come
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Landscape as Theophany
“To experience the landscape as a theophany is to take seriously the way the divine can be revealed through nature and through created things. It means we can join with all of the elements and creatures in singing God’s praise.”
- Christine Valters Paintner, The Soul’s Slow Ripening
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Beauty Is Enough
“At some point in life, the world’s beauty becomes enough.”
- Toni Morrison
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Miracles
People say that walking on water is a miracle, but to me, walking peacefully on the Earth is the real miracle. The Earth is a miracle. Each step is a miracle. Taking steps on our beautiful planet can bring real happiness.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
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