That Is Life. Quotes

Few experiences are more satisfying than becoming someone we always imagined we could be.

Conceive, believe and achieve.

Everything that God wants to say to you is recorded in your Bible…straight from His heart to yours.

Self-confidence comes with self-awareness.

When you know yourself—your strengths, joys, limitations, and fears—you can live in truth and transparency in all areas of your life.

not having a space you can call your own is dangerous. Everyone needs a sanctuary.

What distinguished him in a moment of crisis was his self-command.

Once I finally understand the immensity of my own impoverishment, I am finally in a position to see the enormity of God’s majesty.

If you can’t remember when you last basked in your own glow, it means you’re overdue.

Only through becoming aware of yourself and your limitations can you be transparent with others.

Knowing what environments are a good fit requires a person to know about themselves, in other words, to have self-awareness.

I'm going to stay a little uptight and anxious.

I am obviously not a patient person.

An encounter with other cultures can lead to openness only if you can suspend the assumption of superiority, not seeing new worlds to conquer, but new worlds to respect.

You must make a counter-culture decision to focus on becoming more like Jesus. Otherwise, other forces like peers, parents, coworkers, and culture will try to mold you into their image.

Their lot in life, their station, became a part of their personalities and helped to for my worldview.

Support what is good and spit out what is bad. Get off of your knees and reject the role of slave to the culture of violence.

In a stress pressure-cooker like America, I believe we will see more and more shooting massacres. Violence is in our cultural DNA.

The starting point to freedom is to begin questioning the cultural narrative you have been sold.

We must be compelled to hold this doctrine to be false, and the old and new law called the Old and new Testament, to be impositions, fables and forgeries

When you think about new-born babies being killed in our own lifetime, ' he said, 'all the efforts of culture seem worthless. What have people learned from all our Goethes and Bachs? To kill babies?

Culture is what we choose to repeat.

The secret to making yourself stronger is to absorb the strength of the people around you—energy begets energy.

I’m very headstrong. Once I’ve caught fire, there’s no dousing the flames—all engines full speed ahead.

He did not care about titles and was proud to be a farmer beyond all else.

...imagine anybody having lived forty-five or fifty years without knowing Hamlet! One might as well spend one's life in a coal mine.

The raw data of anthropologists can be misleading

I heard someone say one time that 'anger after five seconds is just pride.

Lack of ownership over your anger can incorrectly absolve you of all responsibility and so keep you stuck in the anger.

Throughout it all, you are still, always, you: beautiful and bruised, known and unknowable.

Hopefully and devoutly focus on your greater possibilities.

You are likely the greatest obstacle to achieving your own dreams.

If you don't believe in God, then the God concept is a great placeholder for everything we don't know, which is exponentially more than we do know.

Don't give-up on your greatest masterpiece — you.

You are special individual.Nobody can be you.You can rise to a greater heights.

Seize every opportunity and make it great.

Greatness demands that I understand that I am not nearly as big as I thought myself to be, but that I am capable of becoming far bigger than I ever imagined myself to be.

Those who have the ability to be grateful are the ones who have the ability to achieve greatness.

Ladies, most of you have no idea how beautiful you are. Don't let mean words from an insecure soul blind you from the truth of your beauty. You are beautiful by design... just the way you are.

When played together, love is music in life

Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can get.

But beautiful girl above all beautiful girls, ' he wrote back, 'This is my home.

Your most precious memories will focus on those you loved, those who loved you, and what you did together in the service of the Lord.

How would your life be different if instead of spending your energy and focus on hating those who hate you, you spent your energy and focus on loving those who love you?

There is no enemy that respect and love will not conquer. The moral authority for survival comes from respect.

If moral truths do not exist as a foundation for law, then law itself becomes merely a system of raw political power accountable to no one.

It inspired a kind of Huck Finn moment when I decided it was better to risk hell than shrivel in the midst of a toxic Southern Baptist morality.

My memories are like a shuffled deck of cards, each one coming up at random.

Some memories are presents that I'm unable to unwrap over and over.

Her tears still lay, unattended, on my bosom...I wouldn't wipe them, for she might stop paying me visits.