67 Quotes by David Steindl-Rast

Any place is sacred ground, for it can become a place of encounter with the divine Presence.

People who have faith in life are like swimmers who entrust themselves to a rushing river. They neither abandon themselves to its current nor try to resist it. Rather, they adjust their every movement to the watercourse, use it with purpose and skill, and enjoy the adventure.

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.

Beauty seen makes the one who sees it more beautiful.

Each one of us is called to become that great song that comes out of the silence, and the more we let ourselves down into that great silence the more we become capable of singing that great song.

Home and journey together constitute the creative polarity of the heart, the two dimensions we must cultivate if we want to ’develop the heart.

Gratefulness is the gallantry of a heart ready to rise to the opportunity a given moment offers.

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

If you learn to respond as if it’s the first day in your life and the very last day, then you will have spent this day very well.