Instead of defining success by the results we achieve, we should define it by the actions we take.
“Jesus revealed how to bear the pain of the world instead of handing on the pain to those around you. When you stop resisting suffering, when you can really do something so foolish as to welcome the pain, it leads you into a broad and spacious place where you live out of the abundance of Divine Love. I can’t promise you pain will leave quickly or easily. To forgive is not the same as to forget.”
― Yes, and...: Daily Meditations
― Yes, and...: Daily Meditations
“Around the table, we know whether there is friendship and community or hatred and division. Precisely because the table is the place of intimacy for all the members of the household, it is also the place where the absence of that intimacy is most painfully revealed.”
― You Are the Beloved: 365 Daily Readings and Meditations for Spiritual Living: A Devotional
― You Are the Beloved: 365 Daily Readings and Meditations for Spiritual Living: A Devotional
“There is Someone dancing with you and you no longer need to prove to anyone that you are right, nor are you afraid of making mistakes. Another word for that is faith.”
― Yes, and...: Daily Meditations
― Yes, and...: Daily Meditations
“When joy is a habit, love is a reflex.”
― Everybody, Always: Becoming Love in a World Full of Setbacks and Difficult People
― Everybody, Always: Becoming Love in a World Full of Setbacks and Difficult People
“Strangely, as much as I heard the word secular as a label on things that should be avoided by good Christians, I don’t ever remember hearing the word sacred as its opposite. Instead, I heard the words clean and safe to describe what was not deemed worldly. Clean and safe. How puny those words are. What a pitiful reduction of the grandeur of the created world and its inhabitants. What a sad commentary on the church’s understanding of the God of the universe.”
― Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art
― Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art
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