Rachel Quotes
You don't know me. Don't ever think you know me. The only things you know about me are the things you made me do, and that illustrates your character, not mine.
Have we fallen into a mesmerized state that makes us accept as inevitable that which is inferior or detrimental, as though having lost the will or the vision to demand that which is good?
Wonder and humility are wholesome emotions and they do not exist side by side with a lust for destruction.
Damn, Claire. Warn a guy before you do a face-plant on the floor next time. I could have looked all heroic and caught you or something -Shane
We should be inspired by people... who show that human beings can be kind, brave, generous, beautiful, strong-even in the most difficult circumstances.
We still talk in terms of conquest. We still haven't become mature enough to think of ourselves as only a tiny part of a vast and incredible universe.
The 'control of nature' is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and philosophy, when it was supposed that nature exists for the convenience of man.
Big messages come in small packages. All it may take to restore someone's trust in life may be returning a lost earring or a dropped glove.
I don't want to make plop art — sculpture that just gets plopped down in places. I wouldn't want to litter every corner of the world with my sculpture.
Christianity isn't meant to simply be believed; it's meant to be lived, shared, eaten, spoken, and enacted in the presence of other people.
Hopefully life is long. Do stuff you will enjoy thinking about and telling stories about for many years to come. Do stuff you will want to brag about.
In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth.
God's ways are higher than our ways not because he is less compassionate than we are but because he is more compassionate than we can ever imagine.
If a great outfit gets you one step closer to feeling good about yourself, then it's worth every penny.
I am trying to be a good person. I am trying to be myself, and if nobody likes me for me, that is their problem.
Life is as complex as we are. Sometimes our vulnerability is our strength, our fear develops our courage, and our woundedness is the road to our integrity. It is not an either/or world.
Faith isn't about having everything figured out ahead of time; faith is about following the quiet voice of God without having everything figured out ahead of time.
In the silence of listening, you can know yourself in everyone, the unseen singing softly to itself and to you.
Sexiness should not be overt. Something shapeless that drapes across your hip, hangs off the shoulder; something that cowls in the front, drapes low in the back, that's sexy.
Sooner or later we will come to the edge of all that we can control and find life, waiting there for us.
You know," Shane said twenty minutes later, "I'd feel a whole lot better about the two of us if you didn't think I was the go-to guy for breaking and entering.
I really believe in trying to increase the amount of useful information in the world and in being accurate in the sense that you can take what I say to the bank, even if you disagree with me.
When you listen generously to people they can hear the truth in themselves, often for the first time.
Of course love is never earned. It is a grace we give one another. Anything we need to earn is only approval.
My interpretation can only be as inerrant as I am, and that's good to keep in mind.
The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen.
A loving silence often has more power to heal and to connect than the most well-intentioned words.
Once I was chased by the king of all scorpions. I have the most notorious animal stories.
I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of God than live in that palace at Washington.
Only as a child's awareness and reverence for the wholeness of life are developed can his humanity to his own kind reach its full development.
