Quote for Today: Ann Voskamp
When I fully enter time’s swift current, enter into the current moment with the weight of all my attention, I slow the torrent with the weight of me all …
Quote for Today: Henri Nouwen
Compassion asks us to go where it hurts, to enter into the places of pain, to share in brokenness, fear, confusion, and anguish. Compassion challenges us to cry out with …
Quote for Today: Hypatia
Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding …
Quote for Today: Lang Leav
Shrinking in a corner, pressed into the wall; do they know I’m present, am I here at all? ―Lang Leav, Love & Misadventure Image: Cowering in the corner © m01229 …
Quote for Today: Jay Woodman
If you are present, then you can see that you give yourself presents in each moment that you can unwrap and thoroughly enjoy–the amazing world around us that we can …
Quote for Today: Margaret Bendroth after Miroslav Volf
Writer Miroslav Volf explains this more poetically. We experience time, he says, the way we hear a beautiful note from a cello. It may sound like a single pitch, but …
Quote for Today: Mary Oliver
The Uses of Sorrow Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this, too, was a gift. —Mary Oliver Image …
Quote for Today: Howard Zinn
To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, …
Quote for Today: Annie Dillard
The color-patches of vision part, shift, and reform as I move through space in time. The present is the object of vision, and what I see before me at any …
Quote for Today: Margaret Atwood
Near the streetcar stop there’s a small flower shop where you can buy one flower at a time, if one flower is all you want. It’s all Yvonne ever wants. …