Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
Martin Luther King..
Preach the Gospel, if necessary, use words!
Often attributed to St. Francis..
As individuals, we should sometimes pause and ask ourselves: what is our aim in life? Have we got one at all?
William Barclay, The letters to Timothy and Titus..
How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for man is to become - to be at last, to die in the fullness of his being.
Antoine De Saint-Exupéry, The Wisdom of the Sounds..
You never know yourself till you know more than your body. The image of God is not seated in the features of your face, but in the lineaments of your soul.
Thomas Traherne, Centuries..
Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.
Helen Keller, Optimism..
The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
Joseph Campbell..
The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.
Ralph Waldo Emerson..
The spiritual life does not remove us from the world but leads us deeper into it
Henri J. M. Nouwen..
Patient and regular practice is the whole secret of spiritual realization. Do not be in a hurry in spiritual life. Do your utmost, and leave the rest to God
Swami Shivananda..
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience
Teilhard de Chardin..
All men complain that they haven't enough time. It's because they look at their lives from too human a point of view. There's always time to do what God wants us to do, but we must put ourselves completely into each moment that he offers us
Michelle Quoist, Prayers of Life..
All true Art is the expression of the soul. The outward forms have value only in so far as they are the expression of the inner spirit of man.
Mohandas K. Gandhi..
Be quite sure that you will never have the unclouded vision of God here in this life. But you may have the awareness of him, if he is willing by his grace to give it you.
The Cloud of Unknowing..
How another sees you depends on how you see him. Respect him, and he will respect you.
Michel Quiost, With Open Heart..
Beauty may be said to be God's trade mark in creation.
Henry Ward Beecher, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays and Representative Men
When you reach the heart of life you shall find beauty in all things, even in the eyes that are blind to beauty.
Kahlil Gibran, Sand and Foam.
Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.
William James, The Will to Believe
Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays and Representative Men
So, once again, you chose for yourself - and opened the door to chaos. the chaos you become whenever God's hand does not rest upon your head.
Dag Hammarkskjöld, Markings
Firstly I believe in the reality of God as the centre of human aspiration and history. What I believe about man, made in the image of God, derives first and foremost from what I believe about God.
David Sheppard, Bias to the Poor
There is no sight more beautiful than a character which has been steadfastly growing in every direction, and has come to old age rich and ripe.
Henry Ward Beecher, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much as on the state of things within, as on the state of things without, and asround us.
Charlotte Brontë, Shirley
You are the salt of the earth.
Matthew 5.13
Commit your way to the Lord; trust in him, and he will act.
Psalm 37.5
Our tragedy is not that we suffer but that we waste suffering. We waste the opportunity of growing into compassion.
Mary Craig, Blessings
Be still, and know that I am God!
Psalm 46.10
What we plant in the soil of contemplation we shall reap in the harvest of action.
Meister Eckhart
Mystical theology, the secret science of God, which spiritual men call contemplation.
St John of the Cross
A Church which starves itself and its members in the contemplative life deserves whatever spiriual leaness it may experience.
Michael Ramsey, Canterbury Pilgrim
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