“Perfection is not the absence of failure. It is the willingness to begin again and again.”
–Joan Chittister, O.S.B.
“Perfection is not the absence of failure. It is the willingness to begin again and again.”
–Joan Chittister, O.S.B.
“This very journey is probably the heart of what Jesus came to reveal.”
–Richard Rohr, Near Occasions of Grace
I believe, Lord, help my unbelief.
“Also, seek the peace and prosperity of the city to which I have carried you into exile. Pray to the Lord for it, because if it prospers, you too will prosper.” (Jeremiah 29:7)
“One doesn’t ask of one who suffers: ‘What is your country and what is your religion?’ One merely says, ‘you suffer, this is enough for me, you belong to me and I shall help you.”
–Louis Pasteur
We are one.
I come as a bud
and reach full blossom.
–Zelley Rainey Orr
“Sometimes I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can anyone deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It’s beyond me”
–Zora Neale Hurston
He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God. (Micah 6:8)
“Justice is what love looks like in public.”
–Cornel West
Let nothing disturb you.
Let nothing upset you.
Everything changes.
God alone is unchanging.
With patience all things are possible.
Whoever has God lacks nothing.
God alone is enough.
–Teresa of Avila
“The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet.”
–Frederick Buechner
Be like the fox
who makes more tracks than necessary,
some in the wrong direction.
Practice resurrection.
–Wendell Berry
“If I were going to begin practicing the presence of God for the first time today, it would help to begin by admitting the three most terrible truths of our existence: that we are so ruined, and so loved, and in charge of so little.”
–Anne Lamott
“Liturgical time is poetic time, oriented towards process rather than productivity.”
–Kathleen Norris
“There is greater comfort in the substance of silence than in the answer to a question.”
–Thomas Merton
“Nobody’s free until everybody’s free.”
–Fannie Lou Hamer
“The person in love with their vision of community will destroy community. The person who loves the people around them will create community everywhere they go.”
–Dietrich Bonhoeffer
What is the opposite of road?
I’d say the answer is abode.
–Richard Wilbur
“God does not require that we be successful only that we be faithful.”
–Mother Teresa