Make Your Life A Prayer That Your Thinking & Acting Bless Your Neighbor

Your life ought to be as one long prayer that God's Spirit may work through all your thinking and acting to bless your neighbor.
~ Peter Reisch, trans. from German by Br. David Steindl-Rast

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[GMW #3189]

Each Of Us Has A Purpose - To Build Not Destroy

I personally believe that each of us was put here for a purpose 

– to build not to destroy.

If I can make people smile, 

then I have served my purpose for God.

~Red Skelton, Comedian, 1913-1997

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[GMW #2815]

The Mystery Of God Touches Us With Love

The mystery of God touches us -- or does not -- in the smallest details:
giving a strawberry, with love;
receiving a touch, with love;
sharing the snapdragon red of an autumn sunset, with love.
~ Marion Woodman, Coming Home to Myself

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[GMW #2951]

Make It Simpler For People To Feed, Clothe And Shelter Themselves

What we would like to do is
change the world -- make it a little simpler for people
to feed, clothe, and shelter themselves
as God intended for them to do.
~ Dorothy Day, Catholic Worker, June 1946

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[GMW #2933]

Harness Energies Of Love For God

Someday, after we have mastered 
the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, 
we shall harness for God the energies of love. 

Then for the second time in the history of the world, 
we will have discovered fire.

~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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[GMW #3044]

Being Constant Praise

Prayer is sitting in the silence until it silences us,

choosing gratitude until we are grateful,
praising God until we ourselves are a constant act of praise.
~ Fr. Richard Rohr, OFM
Radical Grace: Daily Meditations 

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[GMW #3036]