It Is My Life. Quotes
You will either have value, or be grist for the mill — nothing more.
Survival depends on denial, and death comes swiftly to those who forsake it.
Sometimes love can be both the punishment and the crime.
Work becomes worship when you dedicate it to God and perform it with an awareness of his presence.
We can worship God imperfectly, but we cannot worship him insincerely.
It is not always convenient or comfortable, and sometimes worship is a sheer act of the will--a willing sacrifice.
...small bits of our day are profoundly meaningfulbecause they are the site of our worship. The crucible of our formation is in the monotony of our daily routines.
Only he who cries out for the persecuted Jews can sing Gregorian chants. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
If there is a God, you owe him far more than a morally decent life. He deserves to be at the center of your life.
I needed to decide if I would still worship God if he allowed Matt to lose his eye.
Fear uncovers the impossible, while faith reveals the possible.
When we make the unfamiliar familiar, make the unknown known, make the uncomfortable comfortable, and believe the unbelievable, we can then expect the unexpected.
Maybe every once in a while we can take a break from doing everything faster and quicker to reflect on who we are and where we are going.
The problem with baggage is that it affects other people's trips.
You need to own the treasures you find in your soul.
The road to the heart is not a long, linear path, but this turning. There is no race or competition, just me and God going deeper, carving a canyon to the soul.
Hard work is the engine that produces success. Hard work is success in realization.
The only possible match for someone who doesn't know how to receive is someone who doesn't know how to give.
Values are like a pilot’s flight plan . . . without them you’re flying blind.
How we spend our money, however little we have, still reveals what we value.
Evolving and bettering yourself is wonderful, but not if the set of standards and values you adopt smothers you into oblivion in the process.
Believe it or not, you and your enemies want many of the same things and share values.
Be a peacemaker who values peace and takes peace everywhere you go.
Our value is mirrored back to us through success only when we share the treasure we already are.
Love is the compass which keeps every other value from becoming lost.
Awakening does not mean a change in difficulty, it means a change in how those difficulties are met.
Once writing becomes an act of listening instead of an act of speech, a great deal of the ego goes out of it.
He wants to punish me because I do not conform to his view. Well I am just telling him that he cannot punish me. I am beyond his ego and punishment.
It’s alright. It’s okay if it’s about your ego. Sometimes it’s got to be about your ego. Just know that it is.
Do you have the talent?' is rarely the question. 'Do you have the guts to finish?' is the real question.
If you don't acquire the discipline to push through a personal low point, you will miss the reward that comes with persevering.
If you can continue to smile through hardship and pain, then your moment will come…just be patient.
For me, those weeks in Boston, with Wilma, became a lesson in her ability to be “of good mind, ” in her phrase, which also meant a people’s ability to survive.
After that it was easy. It was the most impossible thing I’d ever done, but it was also easy. I held on to Jamie, and I kept moving forward.
Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be.
Each person is a vast territory of undiscovered mystery as nebulous and uncharted as the deepest oceans and expanses of space.
Concepts are not real things
Knowing life's purpose would invest everything one did with meaning.
Violence can be a gift. Violence belongs to everyone.
Violence is rather a strange phenomenon that can be compared to fire, once out of control it’s loyal to no one, not even to the person who started it.
One who has a deaden conscience can never live within the confinements of the law.
It takes abstract thinking to see how greed can lead to prosperity, but it takes wishful thinking to claim that violence can lead to charity.
The system wears a mask of civility, yet will quickly reveal its true nature in the form of magnificently-purposed violence when needed.
Deeply-rooted conditioning has perverted us. We ARE the culture of violence. We must look at ourselves.
Through our expectations, we violently expand and try to fill the world with our proofs of worth.
No matter how fleeting Your smile is, Your smile is the very beginningOf your wisdom-light.
An anarchist is someone who rejects the curious notion that crimes become virtues as they grow in size.
Governments are committed to preserving the myth of their monopoly on violence. Violence belongs to everyone.