Donald Quotes
When someone places more value in saving money, than the value they place in saving Life, they have “misplaced” their values.
It's been said that people see what they want to see. For that exact reason, look for the good in people, rather than the bad.
On what grounds would God be told that He can bring death to millions of people at the end of a normal life span, but that He may not do it in any other way?
Always surround yourself with people who lift you up, rather than hold you down.
If you can't let go of the power you possess, if you can't surrender it gracefully when it is time to do so, you will most likely abuse it.
Seek to be served, and you become a servant. Seek to serve others, and you become a master.
Happiness and Unhappiness are not things that just happen to you, they are a choice. They are a perspective. Smile, and think about that for a moment. Now smile some more. Not that hard is it?
You don't realize your story is changing you until you look back.
It's not a question of whether a person's been inspired by God, the only question is, has that person realized it, or not?
...it is often more difficult to remember to be mindful than to be mindful itself. (p. 47)
I was starting to believe I was a character in a greater story, which is why the elements of story made sense in the first place.
...I wondered about the story we were writing and wanted even more to write a better story for myself, something that leaves a beautiful feeling even as the credits roll.
The actual language of life is not the charts and graphs and stuff we map out to feel smart. The hidden language we are speaking is really about negotiating the feeling God used to give us.
We may have pets, but when it comes to unconditional love, they are the masters.
When you open a door for others, you sometimes open doors for yourself.
We must learn that when people devalue any one Life, they devalue all Life.
If you believe Life is sacred, you must also believe unnecessary killing is sacrilege.
Man must learn that his current path is not suitable for Earth, and soon, Earth won't be suitable for Man.
The Church was not left in this world to perfume the dung-heap of fallen humanity, but to take out, one by one, those who will be saved from the coming destruction.
Jesus had no regard for the lifeboat politics you and I live within every day.
We were made to be distracted by life, by story.
A day is a day. It’s just a measurement of time. Whether it’s a good day or a bad day is up to you. It’s all a matter of perception.
Some trees grow straight, while others grow gnarled and twisted. Yet none are imperfect. Perfection is merely a perception.
One cannot take a coward on dangerous missions or trust one’s fortune to a fool. How then are cowards and fools to be employed?
A woman stood in front of her with the peculiar poise that comes before the discovery of age and after the loss of innocence.
Our country, our people, and our laws have to be our top priority.
If you have laws that you don't enforce, then you don't have laws. This leads to lawlessness.
The same principles that make up a good story also make up a good life.
It may be that only when xenophobia stops working as an election winner will the way be cleared for a return to bipartisanship
To change undesirable behaviors we see in the world, we must change the thinking that leads to those behaviors.
My race is not a better race, it is simply a different race.
I lay there under the stars and thought of what a great responsibility it is to be human.
Never be defined by what has happened to you in the past, it was just a life lesson, not a life sentence. ~ Donald Pillai
The repentance we are called to is about choosing one audience over another.
About the time I told God that He didn't exist, I was desperate for an identity.
A big part of me needed something outside myself to tell me who I was. The thing that had been designed to tell me who I was was gone.
The first thing I did was make a mistake. I thought I had understood capitalism, but what I had done was assume an attitude -melancholy sadness- toward it.
I'm perfectly willing to be perfectly human.
All relationships are teleological, are going somewhere.
You get a feeling when you look back on life that all God really wants from us is to live inside a body He made, and enjoy the story, and to bond with Him through the experience.
Those who teach the most about humanity, aren’t always human.
He had the beginning of wrinkles and the easy manner of one who has already made his mistakes.
Life is more than just a bump in the road. All life is sacred.
Just out of high school, you didn't realize you were creating drama for the sake of drama.