Top 69 Quotes & Sayings by David Steindl-Rast - Page 2

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.