I am preparing a talk for next Sunday, and I sometimes peruse my lists of quotes I have collected over the years to get ideas and inspiration. I have collected them from all sorts of sources. Here are a few that I will pass along.
"It's not the disagreements that lead to divorce, it's the silence.” Jeff D. Opdyke - The Wall Street Journal Online
"The divine never touches human life without upsetting that natural order in which man is most at home." (M. A. Screech quoted in Harold Bloom, The Western Canon, p. 148.)
"Confront evil at the earliest opportunity." -- Walter Dunn
Most of us are tiptoeing through life so we can reach death safely. We should be praying, "If I should wake before I die." Life can get away from you. Don't be satisfied with just pumping blood. Tony Campolo, from a speech. (quoted in Reader's Digest, 10/96)
No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown. William Penn.
The soul is like a violin string--it makes music only when it is stretched. Quoted by Bruce C. Hafen in Brigham Young Magazine, Aug. 1996, The Mind, The Spirit, The Soul.
Suffering either raises us up to a higher consciousness, or it destroys us. Rabbi H. Kushner
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother. Theodore M. Hesburgh, quoted in Reader's Digest, Nov. 1995.
Marriage is somewhat like undertaking a Lego project without instructions. Ammunni Bala Subramaniam (Time Magazine) as quoted in Reader's Digest, Nov. 1995.
There is more to life than increasing its speed. Mahatma Gandhi.
Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. Even if you are behind, a sustained look of control and confidence can give you a mental edge that results in victory. Arthur Ashe - International Hall of Fame Tennis Player
Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. Doug Larson, United Feature Syndicate.
Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them all. Oliver Wendell Holmes, ___________________. (Quoted in Clark Memorandum article by D. H. Oaks.)
"Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them."
Albert Einstein
Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts or measure words, but to pour them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then, with the breath of kindness, blow the rest away. George Elliot quoted in The Treasure Chest, ed. Charles L. Wallis, (New York: Harper and Row, 1965) p. 102.
For some, time is like getting caught up in sticky taffy. For others, it is like a sudden karate chop of changed circumstances. We must have faith in His timing as well as His existence. Concerning this life, the only way to go is through it, there is no way around. [Neil A. Maxwell, excerpt from video Enduring to the End].
“Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and then go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”
~ Harold Thurman Whitman
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Here's another good one:)
"Our worst fear is not that we are inadequate, our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'who am I to be so brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous?' Actually, who are we not to be? You are a child of God: Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There is nothing enlightening about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God within us. It is not just in some of us, it is in everyone and as we let our own light shine we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."
~Marianne Williamson
Love quotes, thanks!
Love them! I send a quote or two or three to Jordan each week and I will be including some of these. Thanks!
Loved these quotes! I miss you guys! Hope all is well :)
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