B.B. Free Quotes
Faith is not believing in my own unshakable belief. Faith is believing an unshakable God when everything in me trembles and quakes.
It takes a habit to break a habit. You can pray every day for a generous heart, but until you start acting in that direction, nothing's going to change.
If you trust in yourself. . .and believe in your dreams. . .and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.
Know that transformation sometimes begins with a fall. So never curse the fall.
You might think what I tell you next is all a dream, or that I've imagined it. I can't help it if that's what you think, but I swear it's true. Sometimes the truest things are the hardest to believe.
You are not controlling the storm, and you are not lost in it. You are the storm.
Sometimes I can see colour without opening my eyes. I saw that Billy's heart was no colour and every colour. Like water or diamonds or crystals, it's pure and reflects the light.
Peace is a fruit of the Spirit, not the byproduct of accumulated wealth.
Use your mind to think about things, rather than think of them. You want to be adding value as you think about projects and people, not simply reminding yourself they exist.
The root of anger is the perception that something has been taken. Something is owed you, and now a debt to debtor relationship has been established.
It is clearly absurd to limit the term 'education' to a person's formal schooling.
Pain will never leave us. Instead of putting energy into destroying pain, we need to put energy into creating pleasure.
Some things are only real because they represent what we think. When we learn the truth and think it, the old reality is no longer real to us and loses its hold on us. The truth sets us free.
In other words, we are never freer than when we become most ourselves, most human, most just, most excellent, and the like.
Them as can do has to do for them as can't. And someone has to speak up for them as has no voices.
Did I love what I was doing, or did I love myself in doing it?
Every arena of life intersects with what's going on in our hearts. Everything passes through on its way to wherever it's going. Everything.
Sweaters need to be imagined, dreamed over.
He said it was better to belong where you don't belong than not to belong where you used to belong, remembering when you used to belong there.
Greed is supported by an endless cast of what-ifs. Greedy people can never have enough to satisfy the need they feel in light of every conceivable eventuality.
Overregulation corrupts citizens and weakens the rule of law.
What's the best way to make sure that the poor have a share in a country's growing wealth: Regulation? Taxes? Philanthropy?
What evidence could possibly be put forward to show that one could have acted differently in the past?
Let nothing put me to unease, nothing to deceive.I have conceived, I exist.Because I am blessed, To gather time, in hearing, my breath, so tranquil.To life, I am, thankful.
We Are All Capable of Great Things
Do you trust me?” he said. Olivia met his hard gaze, and a frisson of uncertainty ran down her spine. She did trust him. Completely. But did he trust her? And why did that matter so much?
Just because you are available for a relationship, doesn't mean you are ready for one.
You don't tell anyone things like that about your friends, even when you're mad at them.
See the bigger picture of yours and refuse the passport size creature that people think you are! Your nature is large
The choices in the now are the choices of all your tomorrows combined
I came home from work one day and felt compelled to write a book about free will.
The Christ event did not in that sense CHANGE the will of God, but rather it more clearly expressed God's eternal will toward the whole of history.
Give freely to the world these gifts of love and compassion. Do not concern yourself with how much you receive in return, just know in your heart it will be returned.
I don't want my life to be defined by what is etched on a tombstone. I want it to be defined by what is etched in the lives and hearts of those I've touched.
If given a choice between stoic justice and compassion, I choose compassion. And if given a choice between worldly leadership and heaven at my feet—I choose heaven.
When we accept ourselves as we are, we aren't "settling" or "keeping the problem in place." We're showing love and compassion for ourselves-for our feelings, our situation, and our history.
The greater the volume of thoughts you have to work with, the better the context you can create for developing options and trusting your choices.
Our feelings are not there to be cast out or conquered. They’re there to be engaged and expressed with imagination and intelligence.
People think a lot, but most of that thinking is of a problem, project or situation - not about it
The problem with feelings is neither that our moods fluctuate nor that our emotions seem to fail us. The greater dilemma is that most have only learned how to dance to one type of feeling.