October 7, 2007
Follow your bliss and the universe will open for you.

Joseph Campbell

June 3, 2007
For those who have the gift of faith, no explanation is necessary; for those who do not, no
explanation will suffice.

Cardinal Newman

May 20, 2007
Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.

Ursula Le Guin

April 15, 2007
You can spend your whole life buildin’
Something from nothin
One storm could come and blow it all away
Build it anyway

You could chase a dream
That seems so out of reach
And you know it might not ever come your way
Dream it anyway

God is great but sometimes life aint good
And when I pray
It doesn’t always turn out like i think it should
But I do it anyway
I do it anyway

This worlds gone crazy
And it’s hard to believe
That tomorrow will be better than today
Believe it anyway

You can love someone with all you heart
For all the right reasons
And in a momemt they can choose to walk away
Love ‘em anyway

God is great but sometimes life aint good
And when I pray
It doesn’t always turn out like i think it should
But I do it anyway
Yeah I do it anyway

You can pour your soul out singin’
A song you believe in
That tomorrow they’ll forget you ever sang
Sing it anyway
Yeah sing it anyway

I sing
I dream
I love anyway

Martina McBride, Anyway

March 25, 2007
I am in constant 24 hour pain, due to chronic arthritis. But I choose not to suffer. I have too much to do.

Fr. Basil Wallace, O.S.B.

March 11, 2007
Christians in America would like to believe in a God without wrath that saves a world without sin through a Christ without the cross.

Reinhold Niebuhr

March 4, 2007
If the bones of Jesus were to be found in an ossuary in Jerusalem — and let’s say they were definitely established to be the bones of Jesus — would that destroy Christian faith? It certainly would not destroy my Christian faith. I leave what happens to bodies up to God.

John Dominic Crossan

February 25, 2007
I am convinced that 99 percent of us are addicted to something, whether it is eating, shopping, blaming or taking care of other people. The simplest definition of an addiction is anything we use to fill the empty place inside of us that belongs to God alone.

Barbara Brown Taylor

February 18, 2007
The golden rule is of no use to you whatever unless you realize it’s your move.

Frank Crane

February 11, 2007
While traveling through New England, the tourist asked the cashier in the gas station: “How far is it to Boston?” The cashier replied, “Well, if you keep going the way you’re headed it’s about twenty five thousand miles. But if you’ll just turn around and go the other way, you’ll find Boston forty-six miles down this very road.”

anonymous

February 4, 2007
All people should strive to learn before they die
What they are running from and to and why.

Emerson

January 28, 2007
If we don’t stand for something, we’ll fall for anything.

Larry Gillick, S.J.

January 21, 2007

On this day…mend a quarrel. Search out a forgotten friend. Dismiss suspicion and replace it with trust. Write a love letter. Share some treasure. Give a soft answer. Encourage youth. Manifest your loyalty in a word or deed. Keep a promise. Find the time. Forego a grudge. Forgive an enemy. Listen. Apologize if you were wrong. Try to understand. Flout envy. Examine your demands on others. Think first of someone else. Appreciate. Be kind. Be gentle. Laugh a little more. Deserve confidence. Take up arms against malice. Decry complacency. Express your gratitude. Worship your God. Gladden the heart of a child. Take pleasure in the beauty and wonder of the earth. Speak your love. Speak it again. Speak it still again. Speak it still once again.

Anonymous

January 14, 2007
We live in a flattened modern world, where all mystery is researched, defined, explained and thus narrowed.

William Willimon

January 7, 2007
It is better to follow even the shadow of the best,
than to remain content with the worst,
and those who would see wonderful things
must often be ready to travel alone.

Henry van Dyke, The Other Wise Man

December 31, 2006
Dear Lord, please give me…
a few friends who understand me and remain my friends;
A work to do which has real value,
without which the world would be poorer;
A mind unafraid to travel, even though the trail not be blazed;
An understanding heart;
A sense of humor;
Time for quiet, silent meditation;
A feeling of the presence of God;
The patience to wait for the coming of these things,
With the widsom to recognize them when they come. Amen.

Anonymous

December 24, 2006
When the song of the angels is stilled,
When the star in the sky is gone,
When the kings and princes are home,
When the shepherds are back with their flock,
The Work of Christmas begins: To find the lost,
To heal the broken,
To feed the hungry,
To release the prisoner,
To rebuild the nations,
To bring peace among brothers and sisters,
To make music in the heart.
Then indeed we shall be blessed!

Howard Thurman

December 17, 2006
Advent is concerned with that very connection between memory and hope which is so necessary to humankind. Advent’s intention is to awaken the most profound and basic emotional memory within us, namely, the memory of the God who became a child. This is a healing memory; it brings hope. The purpose of the Church’s year is continually to rehearse her great history of memories, to awaken the heart’s memory so that it can discern the star of hope…

Pope Benedict XVI, Seek That Which is Above (1986)

December 10, 2006

There is a time appointed in the history of our world, when that very Jesus who appeared on earth, “a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief,” shall reappear with all the circumstances of majesty and power, “King of kings and Lord of lords.” We are led to expect a day when Christ shall find a home in the remotest hearts and families, and the earth in all its circumference be covered with the knowledge and the power of the Lord.

Henry Melvill

December 3, 2006
The message of Advent is that we can never take our own projections more seriously than God’s promises. When we least expect it and when there is no evidence for it, God’s power comes into this godless world in ways the world itself could never predict or foresee.

James F. Kay