A.B. Shepherd Quotes

What kind of miracle ripped out your heart, and left you breathing?

Twenty years old and this man stood ready to take on the world, all for the sake of our unborn baby.

Things are not as they seem. You do not understand. There is no escape. This is all there is.” I had never seen eyes filled with so much sadness.

She brushed the tears from their faces and sang them a melancholy lullaby. Her obvious devotion to her daughters pulled at my heart strings, making my chest ache with longing for my own mother.

I sometimes wish I could spontaneously combust. Burn until nothing but ash is left, to be washed away by the wind and the rain.

But who is ever fair in an argument?

Sometimes careful just isn’t good enough.

Apparently profanity had a way of making men listen.

Jesus incarnated when our Western civilization was changing from being predominantly baby soul to predominantly young. We are now in a similar transition, from young to mature.

Knowing another is endless...The thing to be known grows with the knowing.

No serum can vhange who you are. Nor should you change. Genius or madness--it al depends on who's telling the story.

I felt like I was living two lives. One in the present and one in the past.

To help someone, is to understand them

Sometimes you have to embrace the darkness to stop it.

The Apocalypse . . . a storm warning that carries a booming jolt of truth—Trouble ahead

How do you change the inevitable? The act of trying to change it could actually cause it to happen.

Those who apparently do evil do it ultimately out of love, even if their actions are misguided for the moment.

Those monsters in your closets and under your beds? They are just as real as us. The difference is that we fear what we don't understand, while they understand exactly, what we fear.

You may ask, "What do I do with my anger and hate?" Love them. At their heart, they are love designed to change or keep out what does not belong, and this can increase love.

The ways of men and women are such a puzzle. And I could barely decipher my own feelings, let along anyone else's.

O Lord God

Obviously the choices of other people affect our lives, but we are the primary creators of our experience.

All true teachings expand awareness, not limit it.

To know someone, we must experience him, and that knowing will not exceed our self-knowledge—we cannot know someone else to a greater depth than we know ourselves.

Still, we always have some level of choice, even if it only how we react and make use of what life brings us.

With any spiritual teaching, we are working with rounded-off truths, because we cannot work directly with the whole truth—it’s too big.

One of the most confusing issues in channeling is that of accuracy.

As we move into unprecedented changes in our world, new and better tools are needed for meeting the challenges. The Michael teachings are one such tool.

No one on any plane of existence is infallible or knows everything we need to know.

Hesitating, I stood in the doorway to the room holding the proof of my sin.

Sitting outside on a dark night, under the stars, invites confidences amongst people of all ages, and all walks of life. It invokes an intimacy you don’t find under most other circumstances.

A good shepherd always gives people freedom to choose

Nausea and panic rose in my throat. I had killed a man.

The poker fell from my trembling hands as my entire body shook with reaction. I fell to my knees, pressed my hands to my face and began to sob. What had I done?

Your ego is laughing at you behind your back.

I wiggled and squirmed in my seat as if I had ants in my pants, but in reality it was merely impatience.

Call it sentimentality. Call it curiosity. Just don't call it madness.

Where God's grace takes you, grace will increase your capability and your capacity. Grace will empower you.

God's grace will not take you where it cannot keep you.

Perhaps they never die at all. I quite believe that myself, and it is a comfort, don't you think? That there is a place where no one ever grows old?

There are such things as delusions, but not every unlikely vision that the mentally ill have is imaginary.

I felt like I was an arrow, pulled back and ready to be launched into something big.

Flesh, blood, bone--the body is only a container for who we truly are inside.

I wanted to soothe and comfort her, the way she had comforted her daughters.

Preparing to go to school was like getting ready for extended deep sea diving.

It's like chess, you know. The Queen saves the King.

Some choose to dream with a safety net. I dream with nothing to catch me, that way if I fall nothing can stop me from rising back up.

In a spirit of hope and new beginnings, we linked arms like a couple of kids. Pushing aside sad thoughts, we strode off into our future.

If you're considered a beauty it's hard to be accepted doing anything but standing around.

Frankly I like the fact that I no longer fit the young beauty type-people take me more seriously now.