On Listening Skills . . . . . Leilani Mock, The Priest, June ‘87“Many people choose not to listen. They are afraid that if they hear new ideas they will have to act on them. Resistance to change can be a powerful force. Rather than upset the status quo, some will ‘hear you out,’ but they never really listen. Hearing is a physical act; listening calls for emotional involvement.”
On Wisdom . . . . . Buddhist proverb “To know, and not to do,
Let Us Dare . . . . . John Adams “Let us dare to read, to think,
Every Idea… . . . . . Mortimer J. Adler “Every idea is a source of life and light which animates and illuminates the words, facts, examples, and emotions that are dead — or deadly — and dark without them.”
I Have a Dream . . . . . Martin Luther King, Jr.
“I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true
meaning of its creed: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident; that all men are
created equal’....I have a dream that one day ‘every valley shall be exalted,
every hill and mountain shall
Sin Against Life . . . . . Albert Camus “If there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.”
Storytelling: Imagination and Faith . . . . . Rev. William Bausch
“We must remember that the experience of Jesus came before reflections about
him. This is a way of saying that life came before thought, and that story came
before theology. …
Work of Christmas . . . . . Anonymous
The Great Person . . . . . Meng-Tse “The great person does not think beforehand of one’s words that they may be sincere, nor of one’s actions that they may be resolute — one simply speaks and does what is right.”
Success in Life . . . . . Earl Nightingale, Insight, # 58 “I think our young people in school should be taught this fact: that succeeding in life is not a matter of luck or chance or circumstance, but only a matter of preparation — of doing what they are given to do each day the best they can and holding firm to the certain knowledge that their time will come and that they will be ready for it when it does.”
Affirmation of Life . . . . . Anonymous “In Dr. Albert Schweitzer’s words, if affirmation of life is genuine it will ‘demand from all that they should sacrifice a portion of their own lives for others.’”
Fully Human, Fully Alive . . . . . Fr. John Powell, S.J. “Perhaps the most profound question asked by life is the question of significance and meaning. All of us have to find some purpose or mission in life which will confer upon us a sense of personal distinction and worth. We need to believe that our lives will make a difference for someone or for something.”
I Am the New Year . . . . . Bible Illustrator
One Little Candle . . . . . Marian Wight Edelman
Hungry for Joy . . . . . Brené Brown
“We’re a nation hungry for more joy …
Productive Ideas . . . . . Bits & Pieces, August ‘79 “Productive ideas are most apt to occur to the person who is looking for them. With few exceptions, important inventions and innovations have been conceived by people who were trying to solve a problem, who had an intense desire to find a better way, and who persisted despite repeated failure.”
A Daily Prayer . . . . . Douglas A. Cox
“Today I will treasure fond memories, learn from my past and build positive
mental images of the great moments of my life … This day is mine!”
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be made low, the rough places will be made plains,
and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be
revealed, and all flesh shall see it together’ ....This will be the day when all
God’s children will be able to sing with new meaning, ‘My country ‘tis of thee,
sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the
pilgrims’ pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring’....When we let
freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from
every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all God’s
children, black and white, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be
able to join hands and sing in the words of that old Negro spiritual, ‘Free at
last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!’”
“God, please help us remember that all the darkness in the world cannot snuff
out the light of one little candle. Help us to keep lighting our little candles
until a mighty torch of justice sweeps our nation and the world.”
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