Catholic Wisdom
Spiritual sensitivity heightens when we know how to see, touch, and taste the physical world with exquisite reverence and contemplative discipline.
—Tessa Bielecki in Holy Daring
Native American Wisdom
Isn’t it time to put the elders back in the center of the village?
— Joseph M. Marshall in Walking with Grandfather
Islamic Wisdom
Honor your children, and thus improve their manners.
— Muhammad quoted in The Knowing Heart by Kabir Helminski
Proverb
Water and words
Easy to pour,
impossible to recover.
— Chinese Proverb
Movie Line
One thing I’ve learned is not to abuse time.
— Robert Stroud in Birdman of Alcatraz
Journalist Wisdom
A teacher affects eternity;
he can never tell where his influence ends.
— Henry Adams, American historian and journalist
Question
If you were to say a one-sentence prayer three times a day, what would it be?