Posts tagged ‘david steindl-rast’
Wednesday of Hope – Embracing our Difficulties
Our approach to gratefulness has to be big enough to embrace all the difficulties of the world.
– David Steindl-Rast
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
Hear the Snowflake in the Silence
May you grow still enough to hear the stir of a single snowflake in the air, so that your inner silence may turn into hushed expectation.
– David Steindl-Rast
Wednesday of Hope – the Role of Gratefulness
Only gratefulness, in the form of limitless openness for surprise, lays hold of the fullness of life in hope.
– David Steindl-Rast
Wednesday of Hope – A Virtue
Hope is not merely a feeling. Hope is a virtue, a firmly established attitude of the heart, a basic bearing of the whole person.
– David Steindl-Rast
Wednesday of Hope – Which Does Not Depend on Hopes
Faith leads to beliefs, just as hope leads to hopes. Yet faith does not depend on beliefs, nor does hope depend on hopes.
– David Steindl-Rast
Wednesday of Hope – Virtue
Hope is not merely a feeling. Hope is a virtue, a firmly established attitude of the heart, a basic bearing of the whole person.
– David Steindl-Rast
