It is a huge danger to pretend that awful things do not happen. But you need enough hope to keep going. I am trying to make hope. Flowers grow out of darkness.
Interpretation
Acknowledging adversity is important, but maintaining hope is essential for progress.
This quote emphasizes the necessity of recognizing the harsh realities of life while also cultivating hope as a driving force. Corita Kent suggests that even in the bleakest circumstances, like darkness, there is potential for growth and beauty, much like flowers that emerge despite adversity. The interplay between acknowledging suffering and nurturing hope serves as a motivational reminder to persist in pursuing positivity and change.
In practice
This quote can be used in a motivational speech to encourage people facing challenges to remain hopeful.
A painting is a symbol for the universe. Inside it, each piece relates to the other. Each piece is only answerable to the rest of that little world. So, probably in the total universe, there is that kind of total harmony, but we get only little tastes of it.
In this speedy world of ours when facts are multiplying rapidly and giant rearrangements are happening all around us, it seems dangerous to be made nervous by the new - to want what we can never have, to want things not to be rearranged. It would be better to be able to take the leap, which is to be able not only to live with change and newness, but even to help make it.
It's good to be young and full of dreams. Dreams of one day doing something 'insanely great.' Dreams of love, beauty, achievement, and contribution. But understand they have a life of their own, and they're not very good at following instructions. Love them, revere them, nurture them, respect them, but don't ever become a slave to them. Otherwise you'll kill them off prematurely, before they get the chance to come true.
Never lose heart in the power of the gospel.
I've been given this amazing platform as an Olympic athlete, and there are so many people out there who don't feel like their voice is being heard. I feel it's my responsibility to speak out on issues that are important.
When a man is filled with the Word of God you cannot keep him still, If a man has got the Word, he must speak or die.
Vision animates, inspires, transforms purpose into action.
Each of us has a unique part to play in the healing of the world.
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