Dominican Preaching through Word and Image
The world is ending, says the caterpillar! No, it is just beginning, says the butterfly. – Unknown
It takes mud for the lotus to become itself, and the greater the mud in your life, the greater the lotus blossom. – Jakusho Kwong, No Beginning, No End
What makes things memorable is that they are meaningful, significant, colorful. – Joshua Foer
Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them. – Rabindranath Tagore
What if this darkness is not the darkness of the tomb, but the darkness of the womb? – Valarie Kaur
Plant trees. They give us two of the most crucial elements for our survival: oxygen and books. – A. Whitney Brown, Wall at bookstore – Chicago Botanic Gardens
Faith is crumpling and throwing away everything, proposition by proposition, until nothing is left, and then writing a new proposition, your very own, to throw in the teeth of despair. – Mary Jean Irion, Yes, World: A Mosaic of Meditation
The most fortunate are those who have a wonderful capacity to appreciate again and again, freshly and naively, the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure, wonder and even ecstasy. – Abraham Maslow
Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light; I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night. – Sarah Williams, Twilight Hours: A Legacy of Verse