That Is Life. Quotes
The cross solved our problem by first revealing our real problem, our universal pattern of scapegoating and sacrificing others. The cross exposes forever the scene of our crime.
Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.
I'm a dreamer and continue to dream of what can and will be, "Expecting great things from God, Attempting great things for God
We need people in our lives with whom we can be as open as possible. To have real conversations with people may seem like such a simple, obvious suggestion, but it involves courage and risk.
Change is hardest at the beginning, messiest in the middle and best at the end.
Know that transformation sometimes begins with a fall. So never curse the fall.
Gratitude is the sweetest thing in a seeker's life- in all human life. If there is gratitude in your heart, then there will be tremendous sweetness in your eyes.
We live in a system that espouses merit, equality, and a level playing field, but exalts those with wealth, power, and celebrity, however gained.
Hebrew word for "charity" tzedakah, simply means "justice" and as this suggests, for Jews, giving to the poor is no optional extra but an essential part of living a just life.
There is no truth except the truth that exists within you. Everything else is what someone is telling you.
When a child is given to his parents, a crown is made for that child in Heaven, and woe to the parents who raise a child without consciousness of that eternal crown!
Myrna could spend happy hours browsing bookcases. She felt if she could just get a good look at a person’s bookcase and their grocery cart, she’d pretty much know who they were.
Fatigue makes cowards of us all.
A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
If you live gladly to make others glad in God, your life will be hard, your risks will be high, and your joy will be full.
Isn’t it sad that so often it takes facing death to appreciate life and each other fully?
When you are mad, mad like this, you don't know it. Reality is what you see. When what you see shifts, departing from anyone else's reality, it's still reality to you.
Waiting is an exercise of faith that demonstrates the condition of our hearts. Waiting on God is an act of faith. And faith is what separates the men from the boys.
Testing is not a substitute for curriculum and instruction. Good education cannot be achieved by a strategy of testing children, shaming educators, and closing schools.
Let go of the battle. Breathe quietly and let it be. Let your body relax and your heart soften. Open to whatever you experience without fighting.
If you do politics the right way, I believe, you can actually make people's lives better. And integrity is the minimum ante to get into the game.
If we want to keep the blessings of life coming to us, we must learn to be grateful for whatever is given.
You cannot save people from themselves. All you can do is stand firmly in your hopes for them, with compassion.
Linnaeus and Cuvier have been my two gods, though in very different ways, but they were mere schoolboys to old Aristotle.
The difference between a terrorist and a freedom fighter is a matter of perspective: it all depends on the observer and the verdict of history.
Someone once said anyone can be great under rosy circumstances, but the true test of character is measured by how well a person makes decisions during difficult times.
You can be too rich and too thin, but you can never be too well read or too curious about the world.
Doubts in your mind are a much greater roadblock to success than obstacles on the journey.
Whatever happens to you belongs to you. Make it yours. Feed it to yourself even if it feels impossible to swallow. Let it nurture you, because it will.
It is a bitter-sweet thing, knowing two cultures. Once you leave your birthplace nothing is ever the same.
The only way you can be the best at something is to be the best you can be.
Today we fight. Tomorrow we fight. The day after, we fight. And if this disease plans on whipping us, it better bring a lunch, 'cause it's gonna have a long day doing it.
In the darkest of times, laughter helps revolutionize our perspective.
This is what happened in love. One of you cried a lot and then both of you grew sarcastic.
Creativity arises from our ability to see things from many different angles.
It's just the most amazing thing to love a dog, isn't it? It makes our relationships with people seem as boring as a bowl of oatmeal.
Reading is dreaming. Reading is entering a world of imagination shared between reader and author. Reading is getting beyond the words to the story or meaning underneath.
Marriage is like a well-built porch. If one of the two posts leans too much, the porch collapses. So each must be strong enough to stand on its own.
If we have not changed, we have not learned
When the storm rips you to pieces, you get to decide how to put yourself back together again.
True faith takes its character and quality from its object. Its strength therefore depends on the character of Christ. Even those of us who have weak faith have the same strong Christ as others!
To be prepared against surprise is to be trained. To be prepared for surprise is to be educated.
If you don't receive love from the ones who are meant to love you, you will never stop looking for it.
They say that somewhere in Africa the elephants have a secret grave where they go to lie down, unburden their wrinkled gray bodies, and soar away, light spirits at the end.