Surrender control to the supreme wisdom and authority of God and to the Divine in your soul. Step into the void with courage. Learn to say, I don't know. That's not blind faith. It's pure faith that will allow God and your spirit to lead you wherever your soul wants and needs to go.
Melody Beattie, "Finding Your Way Home"
God loves me enough to let me go through all the lessons I came here to learn, even the ones that hurt the most. His presence doesn't deny me. It's always there to help me see and understand what I came to this planet to learn.
Melody Beattie, "Finding Your Way Home"
The cost of something we understand, but rarely the value.
Rachel DeLap, Showtime Pizza & Cinema, Carmi
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
Albert Einstein
If you're going thru hell, keep going.
Rob Estes
To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.
Aurobindo Ghose
No one lives on the top of the mountain. It’s fine to go there occasionally —for inspiration, for new perspectives. But you have to come down. Life is lived in the valleys. That’s where the farms and gardens and orchards are, and where the plowing and the work is done. That’s where you apply the visions you may have glimpsed from the peaks.
Arthur Gordon
Encourage one another, day after day, as long as it is still called today.
Hebrews 3:13
Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us daily.
Judith Kelman
I am not a bad person. I am a person who often does bad things, but more often does good things. And if that’s good enough for God, it should be good enough for me.
Harold S. Kushner in"How Good Do We Have to Be?"
You don't become happy by pursuing happiness. You become happy by living a life that means something.
Harold S. Kushner,
"When All You Ever Wanted Isn't Enough"
Our souls are hungry for meaning, for the sense that we have figured out how to live so that our lives matter, so that the world will be at least a little bit different for our having passed through it. . . . What frustrates us and robs our lives of joy is this absence of meaning. . . . Does our being alive matter?
Harold S. Kushner,
"When All You Ever Wanted Isn't Enough"
We are important enough to be invited to encounter the Holy, but in its presence we are overwhelmed and made aware of our own smallness.
Harold S. Kushner in "Who Need God"
There are two dogs inside me. One of the dogs is mean and evil. The other dog is good. The mean dog fights the good dog all the time. . . which dog usually wins . . . the one I feed the most.
words of a Native American Tribal Leader, retold by Harold Kushner
Don't wait for some magic gift. Share what you are, dare to be vulnerable, and you will find people who count you among their deepest friends
"Let God Love You"
You are not the momentary whim of a careless creator experimenting in the laboratory of life. . . You were made with a purpose.
Og Mandino in "The Greatest Miracle in the World"
Journey quietly on your pathway to forever with charity & a smile. When you depart it will be said by all that your legacy was a better world than the one you found.
Og Mandino in "The Gift of Acabar"
All of us have been dying, hour by hour, since the moment we were born. Realizing this, let all things be placed in their proper perspective. . . . Remember, it is always later than you think.
Og Mandino in "The Greatest Success in the World"
I believe everyone is born into the world to do something unique and something distinctive.
Benjamin E. Mays
When God seems far away, guess who moved.
NAVIGATORS
There are some kind of men who are so busy worrying about the next life, they've never learned to live in this one.
"To Kill a Mockingbird"
Don’t be satisfied accepting where you are when where you could be is beautiful.
Judy Mae
Isn't it fascinating to think that something as apparently worthless as pulverized grape goop could yield a product that's responsible for the meringue topping on your coconut pie.
Judy Mae
Ask forgiveness and accept other’s forgiveness of you. Forgive others. Get beyond it. There’s a whole world waiting for you.
Judy Mae
I am reminded of a quote I heard the other day. It went something like this: “I would rather live my life believing there is a God and die to find there is not, than live my life believing there is no God and die to find there is.
Judy Mae
The gospel of Luke gave no 'easy out.' Unless I misinterpreted, Jesus did not say 'To whom much is given, of him much will be required unless it frightens you. . . . or unless it’s a pain in the neck . . . or unless you don’t feel like it that day.'
Judy Mae
Are you ready for the ball to fall into your glove? Sometimes the homerun ball falls into our glove; sometimes it hits us in the head. Looking up makes all the difference. We must never lose faith that today or next game or next year, our luck will change and what we’ve been waiting for will finally be ours. The moment we stop looking up expectantly, we risk losing what we’ve waited for.
Judy Mae