Inspirational Quotes - Page 464

My family gave me values that have sustained me through situations that would challenge any person. My personal relationship with the Lord inspires me in all I do.

I'm like a vessel, and God has chosen me to be the voice and the connector.

In truth there is only one freedom - the holy freedom of Christ, whereby He freed us from sin, from evil, from the devil. It binds us to God. All other freedoms are illusory, false, that is to say, they are all, in fact, slavery.

Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.

Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble.

The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves

We're not on our journey to save the world but to save ourselves. But in doing that you save the world. The influence of a vital person vitalizes.

Anyone who has had an experience of mystery knows that there is a dimension of the universe that is not that which is available to his senses. There is a pertinent saying in one of the Upanishads: When before the beauty of a sunset or of a mountain you pause and exclaim, ‘Ah,’ you are participating in divinity. Such a moment of participation involves a realization of the wonder and sheer beauty of existence. People living in the world of nature experience such moments every day. They live in the recognition of something there that is much greater than the human dimension.

Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.

Let light hearts remake us.

Having a college degree gave me the opportunity to be... well-rounded. Also, the people I met at the university, most of them are still my colleagues now. People I've known for years are all in the industry together.

Never mistake activity for achievement.

God does nothing but by prayer, and everything with it.

Compulsory education... It is a painful, continual, and difficult work; to be done by kindness, by watching, by warning, by precept, and by praise, — but above all — by example.

The poetry of the earth is never dead.

The human mind is our fundamental resource.

If more politicians knew poetry, and more poets knew politics, I am convinced the world would be a little better place in which to live.

To be a deep listener, one of the first things we have to do is give up the need and the desire to give advice. Knowing answers does not require stating them; there are times when offering answers is not helpful, as when a person is in the middle of their own learning process.

He who laughs most, learns best.

Although it's admirable to be ambitious and hard-working, it's more desirable to be smart-working.

The timing of your decision is just as important as the decision you make.

To achieve all that is possible, we must attempt the impossible. To be all we can be, we must dream of being more.

If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.

Don't settle in the land of barely enough. That is where you are, it is not who you are. That's your location, it's not your identity. No matter what it looks like, have an abundant mentality.