Sunday Inspiration: Accumulating Books
He who accumulates books, accumulates dreams, and if you have many dreams, you are still young even when you are eighty years old.
—Ugo Ojetti
Sunday Inspiration: A Brave Faith
I don’t want an easy faith, I want a brave faith. I want a faith that takes risks, that asks questions, that experiments, that evolves, that thrives amidst change and obeys amidst doubt. I want a faith that engages both my heart and my head, a faith that operates out of love, not fear, a faith that leaps when it needs to and crawls when it has to.
—Rachel Held Evans
Sunday Inspiration: Peace
Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.
—Thomas Merton
Sunday Inspiration: The Divine Image
Every person bears the divine image, and so when anyone is injured, the heart of God is wounded.
—John Calvin
Sunday Inspiration: Do Not Be Daunted
Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world’s grief. Do justly, now. Love mercy, now. Walk humbly, now. You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it.
—The Talmud
Sunday Inspiration: Gratitude
Since I’m not sure of the address to which to send my gratitude, I put it out there in everything I do.
—Michael J. Fox
Sunday Inspiration: More Light
Every positive thought we pass between us makes room for more light.
—John Lewis
Sunday Inspiration: Love and Truth
Do not accept anything as truth that lacks love, and do not accept anything as love which lacks truth. One without the other is a destructive lie.
—Edith Stein
Sunday Inspiration: Gratefulness
I no longer want to have anything to do with love that forgets to be grateful.
—Thomas Merton
Sunday Inspiration: Miracles
Where there is great love there are always miracles.
—Willa Cather