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Dominican Preaching through Word and Image
Wednesday of Hope – Courage to Fail
Success is not final, failure is not fatal; it is the courage to continue that counts.
– Winston Churchill
When Is Time Really Wasted?
It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
Wednesday of Hope – Humor and Perspective
The only thing I can recommend at this stage is a sense of humor, an ability to see things in their ridiculous and absurd dimensions, to laugh at others and at ourselves, a sense of irony regarding everything that calls out for parody in this world. In other words, I can only recommend perspective and distance.
– Václav Havel
All is the Moon
There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon.
– Matsuo Basho
Wednesday of Hope – Wait
I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope
For hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love,
For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith
But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.– T.S. Eliott
What Happens Here, Happens There
Pick a flower and you move a farthest star.
– Paul Dirac
Wednesday of Hope – Dance Anyway
No despair of ours can alter the reality of things, or stain the joy of the cosmic dance which is always there. Indeed we are in the midst of it, and it is in the midst of us, for it beats in our very blood, whether we want it to or not. Yet the fact remains that we are invited to forget ourselves on purpose, cast our awful solemnity to the winds, and join in the general dance.
– Thomas Merton
Enjoying the Spring
It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart.
-Rainer Maria Rilke
Wednesday of Hope – Go and Create Something
In a time of destruction, create something: a poem, a parade, a community, a school, a vow, a moral principle; one peaceful moment.
– Maxine Hong Kingston
Loving the Ordinary
Anyone can love a rose, but it takes a lot to love a leaf. It’s ordinary to love the beautiful, but it’s beautiful to love the ordinary.
– Author Unknown
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