Longing is a compass that guides us through life. We may never get what we really want, that's true, but every step along the way will be determined by it.
Joan D. ChittisterRead
Darkness deserves gratitude. It is the alleluia point at which we learn to understand that all growth does not take place in the sunlight.
Interpretation
Darkness can teach us valuable lessons about growth and resilience.
This quote suggests that difficult and dark times are essential for personal growth and understanding. Just as plants need both sunlight and darkness to thrive, individuals often learn important life lessons during challenging experiences, which contribute to their overall development and appreciation of life.
In practice
This quote is perfect for a motivational speech about overcoming challenges.
Longing is a compass that guides us through life. We may never get what we really want, that's true, but every step along the way will be determined by it.
Feminism without spirituality runs the risk of becoming what it rejects: an elitist ideology, arrogant, superficial and separatist, closed to everything but itself. Without a spiritual base that obligates it beyond itself, calls it out of itself for the sake of others, a pedagogical feminism turned in on itself can become just one more intellectual ghetto that the world doesn’t notice and doesn’t need.
We talk religion in a world that worships the bread but does not distribute it, that practices ritual rather than righteousness, that confesses but does not repent.
Hospitality means we take people into the space that is our lives and our minds and our hearts and our work and our efforts. Hospitality is the way we come out of ourselves. It is the first step towards dismantling the barriers of the world. Hospitality is the way we turn a prejudiced world around, one heart at a time.
The question is not, do we go to church; the question is, have we been converted. The crux of Christianity is not whether or not we give donations to popular charities but whether or not we are really committed to the poor.
It is a pathetic moment in the history of the human condition when the outside world tells us who and what we are - and we start to believe it ourselves. Then, bent over from the weight of the negativity, we start to wither on the outside.
Who I am is what fulfills me and fulfills the vision I have of the world.
It's about time we stopped buying things we don't need with money we don't have to impress people we don't like.
Other men may preach the gospel better than I, but no man can preach a better gospel.
I think, with never-ending gratitude, that the young women of today do not and can never know at what price their right to free speech and to speak at all in public has been earned.
You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do.
Help others solve their problems; standing farther away, you can often see matters more clearly than they do. . . The greatest service you can render someone else is helping him or her help themselves.
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