“Perfection is not the absence of failure. It is the willingness to begin again and again.”
–Joan Chittister, O.S.B.
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“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
“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
"To write is to embark on a journey whose final destination we do not know."
–Henri Nouwen