Wiederkehr Quotes

#1. When referring to an individual, including yourself, never use the word 'just'.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#2. Once you understand a wound it loses its power to destroy you.

Macrina Wiederkehr

#3. The fast pace of our lives makes it difficult for us to find grace in the present moment, and when the simple gifts at our fingertips cease to nourish us, we have a tendency to crave the sensational.

Macrina Wiederkehr

#4. [Patriarchal Blessing] - These privileged blessings are a powerful witness of the mission of the Lord Jesus Christ in bringing exaltation to each of us.

James E. Faust

#5. Yet, as only New Yorkers know, if you can get through the twilight, you'll live through the night.

Dorothy Parker

#6. So many things are possible as long as you don't know they are impossible

Mildred D. Taylor

#7. But knowledge does not protect one. Life is contemptuous of knowledge; it forces it to sit in the anterooms, to wait outside. Passion, energy, lies: these are what life admires.

James Salter

#8. O God, help me to believe the truth about myself, no matter how beautiful it is.

Macrina Wiederkehr

#9. The seasons of my heart change like the seasons of the fields. There are seasons of wonder and hope, seasons of suffering and love, seasons of healing. There are seasons of dying and rising, seasons of faith.

Macrina Wiederkehr

#10. He wasn't mine anywhere except in my heart.

Lisa Kleypas

#11. Sometimes we have to be left on our own to discover the uniqueness and strength that is ours.

Macrina Wiederkehr

#12. Union with God is the only heaven there is, and it begins here on earth.

Macrina Wiederkehr

#13. When parents have college savings accounts for their kids, their kids show higher social and cognitive performance.

Dan Ariely

#14. My sin as a painter is that I just want to paint anything I want to paint - and repaint.

Wayne Thiebaud

#15. I wind in and out of people's lives. Having touched them, I am blessed. Having touched me, they are blessed. Our roots are deepened. Our wings are strengthened. We have given each other grace to live more deeply.

Macrina Wiederkehr

#16. My God is not imprisoned anywhere, not in the Bible nor the tabernacle. Real Presence is everywhere, and those with the hearts of children revel in it.

Macrina Wiederkehr

#17. Taking off your shoes is a sacred ritual. It is a hallowed moment of remembering the goodness of space and time. It is a way of celebrating the holy ground on which you stand.

Macrina Wiederkehr

#18. Children are the bearers of life in its simplest and most joyous form. Children are color-blind and still free of all the complications, greed, and hatred that will slowly be instilled in them through life.

Keith Haring

#19. We have not been abandoned. We have, perhaps, in that leaving been given the gift of ourselves in a new, deeper, and more lasting way.

Macrina Wiederkehr

#20. Holiness comes wrapped in the ordinary. There are burning bushes all around you. Every tree is full of angels. Hidden beauty is waiting in every crumb.

Macrina Wiederkehr