Max Michael

“Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.”
― Rumi

“We are such spendthrifts with our lives, the trick of living is to slip on and off the planet with the least fuss you can muster. I’m not running for sainthood. I just happen to think that in life we need to be a little like the farmer, who puts back into the soil what he takes out.”
― Paul Newman

“God is always bigger than the boxes we build for God, so we should not waste too much time protecting the boxes.”
― Richard Rohr, Everything Belongs: The Gift of Contemplative Prayer

“...the care of the earth is our most ancient and most worthy and, after all, our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it, and to foster its renewal, is our only legitimate hope.”
― Wendell Berry, The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays