Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Religion is pointing toward the moon
Hospitality is simply love on the loose.
Life is the ability to start over again.
Beauty scatters the seeds of hope in us.
In our dreams lies our unfinished work for the world.
Find the thing that stirs your heart and make room for it
Everything we do seeds the future. No action is an empty one.
It is not our job to work miracles, but it is our task to try.
Fear is not the opposite of courage. Fear is the catalyst of courage.
We need a much broader conversation on what the morality of pro-life is
To insist on living until we die may be one of life's greatest virtues.
To be enlightened is to know that heaven is not "coming." Heaven is here.
If anything diminishes a person, it is the cancer of constant complaining.
Learning to celebrate joy is one of the great practices of the spiritual life.
No one finds time for prayer. You either take time for it or you don't get it.
We must learn to pray out of our weaknesses so that God can become our strength.
But we are here to depart from this world as finished as we can possibly become.
Imagine how happy, how holy, life would be if we ever really learn to see beauty.
We don't change as we get older - we just get to be more of what we've always been.
Our role in life is to bring the light of our own souls to the dim places around us.
An authentic spirituality does not cater to culture; it calls culture to accountability.
Precisely because of the greatness of God, we don't have to be great at all. Just in awe.
It's the beauty within us that makes it possible for us to recognize the beauty around us.
Hope grows in us, despite our moments of darkness, regardless of our regular bouts of depression.
June is the time for being in the world in new ways, for throwing off the cold and dark spots of life.
We are living in a period of commerical globalization. What we really need is spiritual globalization.
The spiritual response is too often a simplistic one: we abandon God or we blame God for abandoning us.
Beware the religion that turns you against another one. It's unlikely that it's really religion at all.
Life is not meant to be a burden. Life is not a problem to be solved. It is a blessing to be celebrated.
Never confuse desire with vision. Desire has to do with what we want. Vision has to do with what we need.
A life of value is not a series of great things well done; it is a series of small things consciously done.
Anger is not bad. Anger can be a very positive thing, the thing that moves us beyond the acceptance of evil.
Goodness is a process of becoming, not of being. What we do over and over again is what we become in the end.
Prophets are so dangerous because they cry in season and out of season, politely and impolitely, loud and long.
Work is not slavery, then. Work is creativity. It is the expression of ourselves that no one else can duplicate.
Too many times we insist on loving people the way we want to love them instead of the way they need to be loved.
We each should have 2 pockets: in 1 the message, 'I am dust & ashes;' in the other, 'For me the universe was made.'
A hard heart makes for hard judgments; a compassionate heart understands the humanity of the one we presume to judge.
Compassion is not sympathy. Compassion is mercy. It is a commitment to take responsibility for the suffering of others.
The purpose of leadership is not to make the present bearable. The purpose of leadership is to make the future possible.
We are each called to go through life reclaiming the planet an inch at a time until the Garden of Eden grows green again.
Compassion is the ability to understand how difficult it is for people to be the best of what they want to be at all times.
If life is really for the living, then the trick to living well is to learn to live it fully, to soak it up, to revel in it.
Grief is a sign that we loved something more than ourselves. . . . Grief makes us worthy to suffer with the rest of the world.
The message we have internalized is clear - we are what we do and what we own, not what we are inside ourselves. Where it counts!
I begin to understand as never before that holiness is made of dailiness, of living life as it comes to me, not as I insist it be.
Prophets are those who take life as it is and expand it. They refuse to shrink a vision of tomorrow to the boundaries of yesterday.
Awareness of the sacred in life is what holds our world together, and the lack of awareness of the sacred is what is tearing it apart.
Hope is not a matter of waiting for things outside of us to get better. It is about getting better inside about what is going on outside.
Darkness deserves gratitude. It is the alleluia point at which we learn to understand that all growth does not take place in the sunlight.