A Franciscan Benediction
May God bless you with discomfort at easy answers, half truths, and superficial relationships, so that you may live deep within your heart.
May God bless you with anger at injustice, oppression, and the exploitation of people, so that you may work for justice, freedom, and peace.
May God bless you with tears to shed for those who suffer from pain, rejection, and starvation, so that you may reach out your hand to comfort them and to turn their pain into joy.
And may God bless you with enough foolishness to believe that you can make a difference in this world, so that you can do what others claim cannot be done…
Amen.
When you find yourself at the right place at the right time for the right purpose you are God’s Reward to someone else.
Faith can move mountains, but don’t be surprised if God hands you a shovel.
If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.
Have You Been You?
- A teacher named Sosya, ripe with years and honors, lay dying. His students and disciples asked if he was afraid to die.
- Sosya: Yes, I'm afraid to meet my Maker.
- Student 1: How can that be? You have lived such an exemplary life. You have led us out of the wilderness of ignorance, like Moses.
- Student 2: You have judged between us wisely, like Solomon.
- Sosya: When I meet my Maker, He will not ask, "Have you been Moses or Solomon?" He will ask, "Have you been Sosya?!"
Source: godsradicaldaughter
Talent is God-given, be humble. Fame is man-given, be grateful. Conceit is self-given, be careful.
God is looking for people through whom He can do the impossible – what a pity that we plan only the things we can do by ourselves.
Source: somalife
God is more interested in me than He is in my dream.
There is no greater discovery than seeing God as the author of your destiny.
Source: catchforus
If you saw the importance of your dream like He sees it, you would not neglect pursuing it for another day.
Source: biggblog
How much happier you would be, how much more of you there would be, if the hammer of a higher God could smash your small cosmos.
Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight. - King Solomon
[God] judges character. And he judges you during wartime, when you’re in action, when you’re down in the trenches. Not when you’re sitting at home, drinking tea.
Source: quote-book
