Our Quotes

When the most important times are occurring, we don't even recognize them or notice. We are just busy living our lives. Only looking back do we know what was a great moment in our lives.

Our lives are a mosaic of little things, like putting a rose in a vase on the table.

The state of ill health is a moment to moment happening. Healing is moment to moment balance, bringing awareness to our thoughts, feelings and emotions and how we respond.

Every Iranian artist, in one form or another, is political. Politics have defined our lives.

It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak.

The Our Father contains all the duties we owe to God, the acts of all the virtues and the petitions for all our spiritual and corporal needs.

We need to teach our children how to debate the major life issues. Debate strengthens their beliefs and enables them to defend themselves against ideologies that are going to come their way.

Our relationship with Nature... best way of forging this relationship... be a pilgrim and not a tourist on Planet Earth

Our country is not the only thing to which we owe our allegiance. It is also owed to justice and to humanity.

Praises for our past triumphs are as feathers to a dead bird.

I think that we all have within us the potential for almost anything. If we play close attention to our lives, then we can get at it somehow.

If we change the stories we live by, quite possibly we change our lives

It's a shame that we have to use whatever leverage we have in Congress to get the president to deal with the biggest problem confronting our future. And that's our excessive spending.

The purpose of our lives is to find the purpose of our lives.

Each of our lives is a part of the lengthy process of the universe gradually waking up and becoming aware of itself.

By bringing nature into our lives, we invite humility.

How does contemporary technology and culture changes our understanding of what it means to be human. What is our relationship with - and responsibilities towards - that which we create.

It is our character that supports the promise of our future - far more than particular government programs or policies.

Our relationship with God will never be right as long as our relationship with others is wrong.

Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith.

Holy Spirit, take the Word of truth as we find it in the Scriptures and bring it home to our lives.

Children are our future and if we use them in battle, we are destroying the future. We must reclaim them, every one of them, one at a time.

We always attract into our lives whatever we think about most, believe in most strongly, expect on the deepest level, and imagine most vividly.

Today the two hundred million men in our country are entering into a civilized new world...but we, the two hundred million women, are still kept down in the dungeon.

If we only spent more of our time in looking at Him we should soon forget ourselves.

As our Father makes many a flower to bloom unseen in the lonely desert, [let us] do all that we can do, as under God's eye, though no other eye ever take note of it.

It's impossible to imagine our planet without coral.

The 'working poor,' as they are approvingly termed, are in fact the major philanthropists of our society.

Anxiety, the illness of our time, comes primarily from our inability to dwell in the present moment.

What else can matter to us, other than how our lives feel from the inside?

Our thoughts and imaginations are the only real limits to our possibilities.

Prayer opens our lives for God so his will can be done in and through us, because in true prayer we habitually put ourselves into the attitude of willingness to do whatever God wills.

The fortunate circumstances of our lives are generally found, at last, to be of our own producing.

Hate has no place in the house of God. No one should be excluded from our love, our compassion or our concern because of race or gender, faith or ethnicity - or because of their sexual orientation.

It makes no sense to invest in [fossil fuel] companies that undermine our future

We are at a time in our country's history that inclusive language is better than exclusive language.

You do not know our culture, our ethics, or the unwritten codes that already provide our society more order than could be obtained by any of your impositions.

It is often in the trial of adversity that we learn those most critical lessons that form our character and shape our destiny.

An actor's job is to embrace emotions and situations that in real life we spend all of our time running away from.

Poetry, in the past, was the center of our society, but with modernity it has retreated to the outskirts. I think the exile of poetry is also the exile of the best of humankind.

I'm not a genius. I just worked really, really hard, and I want our generation, our children and our future generations to realize that they can fulfill the same dreams.

If the way of the sage is true, that we are all dreaming our world into being, then it has to apply not only to our private, personal universe but to the world at large.

The present is determined by our past actions, and the future by the present.

We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.

Whether or not our prayer is heard depends not on the number of our words, but on the fervor of our souls.

We need to let our children grow up to face the world armed with knowledge, with much more knowledge than we ourselves had at their age. It is scary, but the alternative is worse.

God has plans, not problems for our lives. The life of a Christian is an education for a higher service. God is training you for something.

We never had any silk sheets in our family...

Meditation allows us to directly participate in our lives instead of living life as an afterthought.

No phenomenon can be isolated, but has repercussions through every aspect of our lives. We are learning that we are a fundamental part of nature's ecosystems.