David Steindl-Rast Quotes - Page 3

The hope that is left after all your hopes are gone - that is pure hope, rooted in the heart.

Faith is the courageous confidence that trusts in the Source of all gifts.

The experience of love and the experience of death destroy the illusion of our self-sufficiency. The two are closely connected, and to become fully human we must experience both of them.

Gratefulness is that fullness of life for which we are all thirsting.

Order is the disposition of things in which each gives to the other its room, its own proper place. That's the external aspect. The other is that order that springs from love: there's no other way of establishing order except through love.

The challenge is to learn to respond immediately to whatever it is time for. Not to wonder whether you have time for it or whether you like it, but simply to respond when it is time.

Only gratefulness, in the form of limitless openness for surprise, lays hold of the fullness of life in hope.

Blessing is the lifeblood throbbing through the universe.

If you're really mind-full, and if you underline that aspect of fullness, wholeness, or wholeheartedness, it reveals the gift character of everything.

Each string of a wind harp responds with a different note to the same breeze. What activity makes you personally resonate most strongly, most deeply?

When you focus so much on the word, you tend to neglect the realm of silence.

A single crocus blossom ought to be enough to convince our heart that springtime, no matter how predictable, is somehow a gift, gratuitous, gratis, a grace.

At any moment the fully present mind can shatter time and burst into Now.

The universe is gratis. It cannot be earned, nor need it be earned.

We can't really waste our time; we have to see that we are all in the same boat and that different religious traditions point in the same direction, and now let's get moving together, doing something for peace.

Gratefulness is the gallantry of a heart ready to rise to the opportunity a given moment offers.

In moments of surprise we catch at least a glimpse of the joy to which gratefulness opens the door.

The goal is partly the enjoyment; it doesn't come later, but within the very process of the struggle.

There is no one harder to live with than an artist. Therefore an artist is a real gift because he or she raises the sanctity of everyone else in the community.