Dostoevsky was Dorothy Day’s favorite novelist. Today is his birthday (10/30/1821). “Gentlemen, look around you at the gifts of God, the clear sky, the pure air, the tender grass, the birds; nature is beautiful and sinless, and we, only we, are sinful and foolish, ....
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...and we don’t understand that life is heaven, for we have only to understand that and it will at once be fulfilled in all its beauty, we shall embrace each other and weep.”(Fr Zossima in The Brothers Kalamazov)
The pale flowers of the dogwood outside this window are saints. The little yellow flowers that nobody notices on the edge of that road are saints looking up into the face of God.
~~ Thomas Merton, New Seeds of Contemplation
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