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Dominican Preaching through Word and Image
Wednesday of Hope – Trust Life
Deep trust in life is not a feeling but a stance that you deliberately take. It is the attitude we call courage.
– David Steindl-Rast
Secrets at Dawn
The breezes at dawn have secrets to tell you. Don’t go back to sleep.
– Jalaluddin Rumi
Wednesday of Hope – Not Giving Up to Despair
I am fundamentally an optimist. Whether that comes from nature or nurture, I cannot say. Part of being optimistic is keeping one’s head pointed toward the sun, one’s feet moving forward. There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely tested, but I would not and could not give myself up to despair. That way lays defeat and death.
– Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom: Autobiography of Nelson Mandela
Do Not Be Small Minded
Do not be small minded. Do not pray for gourds and pumpkins from God, when you should be asking for pure love and pure knowledge to dawn within every heart.
– Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, Great Swanby by Lex Hixon
Wednesday of Hope – Hope Is Not Dead
Hope is not dead, it is just larger than our imaginations.
– Kathy Hobaugh
Our Sparkling World
To the dull mind all nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wednesday of Hope – Embrace Radical Presence
The most radical thing any of us can do at this time is to be fully present to what is happening in the world.
– Joanna Macy
The Soil Connects Us
The soil is the great connector of lives, the source and destination of all. It is the healer and restorer and resurrector, by which disease passes into health, age into youth, death into life. Without proper care for it we can have no community, because without proper care for it we can have no life.
– Wendell Berry
Wednesday of Hope – Possibilities
If you assume that there is no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, that there are opportunities to change things, then there is a possibility that you can contribute to making a better world.
– Noam Chomsky
Qualities of God’s Friends
The Friend of God has these three qualities: a generosity like that of the ocean, a compassion like that of the sun, and a humility like that of the earth.
– Bayazid, Tadhkirat
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