It is a huge danger to pretend that awful things do not happen. But you need enough hope to keep going. I am trying to make hope. Flowers grow out of darkness.
Interpretation
Acknowledging adversity is important, but maintaining hope is essential for progress.
This quote emphasizes the necessity of recognizing the harsh realities of life while also cultivating hope as a driving force. Corita Kent suggests that even in the bleakest circumstances, like darkness, there is potential for growth and beauty, much like flowers that emerge despite adversity. The interplay between acknowledging suffering and nurturing hope serves as a motivational reminder to persist in pursuing positivity and change.
In practice
This quote can be used in a motivational speech to encourage people facing challenges to remain hopeful.
A painting is a symbol for the universe. Inside it, each piece relates to the other. Each piece is only answerable to the rest of that little world. So, probably in the total universe, there is that kind of total harmony, but we get only little tastes of it.
In this speedy world of ours when facts are multiplying rapidly and giant rearrangements are happening all around us, it seems dangerous to be made nervous by the new - to want what we can never have, to want things not to be rearranged. It would be better to be able to take the leap, which is to be able not only to live with change and newness, but even to help make it.
When women put their heads together, powerful things can happen!
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Ordinary women of grace are, in a sense, my real role models.
Don't be a cynic and disconsolate preacher. Don't bewail and moan. Omit the negative propositions. Challenge us with incessant affirmatives.
God has enough grace to solve every dilemma you face, wipe every tear you cry, and answer every question you ask.
The minute you begin to do what you really want to do, it's really a different kind of life.
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