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Catholic Wisdom
The great, gashed, half-naked mountain is another of God's saints. There is no other like him. He is alone in his own character; nothing else in the world ever did or ever will imitate God in quite the same way.
- Thomas Merton in When the Trees Say Nothing
African-American Wisdom
When you talk about hope, you have to be a long distance runner.
— Cornel West in Hope on a Tightrope
"You must lay your lives on the altar of social change so that wherever you are there the Kingdom of God is at hand!"
— Howard Thurman in A Strange Freedom
Proverb
God is a busy worker but loves to be helped.
— Basque Proverb
Native American Wisdom
Any persons whom you have ever met, even if you have just exchanged a
glance on a bus, have become part of your being and consequently you are, in some sense, responsible for them. You carry them in your heart.
— Native American Saying in Grace in Action by Richard Rohr and Others
Spiritual Wisdom
The Divine, holding out a hand like a lover or an old friend, eyes expectantly on us, utters five golden words: May I have this dance?
— Cynthia Winton-Henry in Dance — The Sacred Art
Psychological Wisdom
Children are messengers from a world we once deeply knew, but have long since forgotten.
— Alice Miller in Full Esteem Ahead by Diane and Julia Loomans
Cultural Wisdom
Civility is the sum of the many sacrifices we are called to make for the sake of living together.
— Stephen L. Carter in Civility