Dominican Preaching through Word and Image
Fire of the Holy Spirit, life of the life of every creature, holy are you in giving life to forms. Rivers spring forth from the waters; earth wears her green vigor. – Hildegard of Bingen
Dive deeply into the miracle of life and let the tips of your wings be burnt by the flame, let your feet be lacerated by the thorns, let your heart be stirred by human emotion, and let your soul be lifted beyond the earth.… Continue Reading “Life Worth Living”
Your success and happiness lie in you….Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties. – Helen Keller
God is not too hard to believe in. God is too good to believe in, we being such strangers to such goodness. The love of God is to me absolutely overwhelming. – Rev. William Sloane Coffin, “Religion and Ethics”, Newsweekly, 8/27/04
Faith is the courageous confidence that trusts in the Source of all gifts. – David Steindl-Rast
God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illuminated by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond… Continue Reading “When Does God Die?”
Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal Responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life. – His Holiness the Dalai Lama
It is a blessed thing to know that no power on earth, no temptation, no human frailty can dissolve what God holds together. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The world is charged with the grandeur of God. It will flame out, like shining from shook foil; It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil. – Gerard Manley Hopkins from God’s Grandeur