Honoring Everyone and Every Thing

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?

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