67 Quotes by David Steindl-Rast

There’s opportunity upon opportunity to be grateful; that’s what life is.

We are never more than one grateful thought away from peace of heart.

The antidote to exhaustion may not be rest. It may be wholeheartedness. You are so exhausted because all of the things you are doing are just busyness. There’s a central core of wholeheartedness totally missing from what you’re doing.

Love is saying yes to belonging.

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

Eyes see only light, ears hear only sound, but a listening heart perceives meaning.

Everything is a gift. The degree to which we are awake to this truth is a measure of our gratefullness, and gratefullness is a measure of our aliveness.

Is the relationship between God and Jesus Christ not unique? Of course it is. But so is yours. The relationship between God and every human being is unique and irreplaceable – in ever-new variations of the Christ theme.

Truth is something we discover by carrying it out. It is not a list of statements, but a direction of life.