That Is Life. Quotes

Becoming a Christian takes only a single step

God’s Word not only gives authority to one’s ministry

Like people touch the feet of Jesus on the Pieta and hope for a blessing, I would touch the feet of the dancer and hope for grace.

His mercy, not our merits, make[s] us his.

Jesus does not love any child (young or old) because the child is good. Jesus loves his children because he is good.

Sometimes, the most graceful way to handle something is to be decidedly ungraceful.

Rest in the knowledge that God is both abundantly gracious and ridiculously generous.

The best practice is to be around people who absolutely disagree. Grace in conflict is a study in love.

Comport yourself with grace under pressure.

There are gentler and more graceful ways to interface with natural conflict.

There are graceful ways of accessing your purpose and success, with time, invitation, gentleness, cooperation and surrender.

Grace does not depend on what we have done, but on what God has done for us.

I listened to you tell me, tell everyone, and all the world, “Praise the Lord.” You were broken, but not by bullets and bombs. You were broken by grace.

Grace means that God steps into the lives of particular individuals with the purpose and effect of saving them. He needs no permission to do this, nor is He under any obligation to do so.

There is grace for the unrighteous and the self-righteous alike, and the father loves both sons well.

I doubt that anyone has a Damascus moment after experiencing discrimination. Most people seem to have shining moments of change after experiencing grace.

Let today be the day you learn the grace of letting go and the power of moving on.

Certainly there is life and there is death, but even in death, if we look closely enough, we will find grace.

We have another chance to navigate, perhaps in a slightly different way than we did yesterday. We cannot go back. But we can learn.

Life can be how you choose or are governed by fate.

Fate can be tricky and troublesome when not managed well.

Life is actually a self made web of fate.

It is important not to become a prisoner of fate.

Trusting fate is like gambling on an unknown outcome with unknown consequences.

Life is a wondrous journey that can be of your own making or a combination of fate and luck.

Surrender to fate and you will never be fully contented.

Fate lies down the path for those strong enough to walk it.

This is just your unwritten life. You didn’t expect it, it just happened.

He wondered at times whether he didn’t belong to a class of people secretly convinced they had an arrangement with fate

Synchronicity, it is like a collaboration with fate. All of that becomes the norm when the EGO (edge God out) is no longer the driving force in your life.

It isn't hard to find evil in this world. Evil is always more easily imagined than good, somehow.

What is discovered may be abused, but that does not mean the discovery was evil.

Evil is there, out there and in your faces! You have two choices, either run or fight! To run is to die a coward! To fight is to win!

Don't let the evil actions of broken people define your view of our world! Don’t be terrorized into a diluted, hopeless reality.

To be confronted with a simple and unqualified evil is no doubt a kind of luxury....

For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out. The main battlefield for good is not the open ground of the public arena but the small clearing of each heart.

Our evening-long tango of stares had my head spinning.

You are nothing but trouble.”

Consciousness provides the fertile ground where seeds of greatness are born.

Consciousness precedes phenomenon, and therefore consciousness can alter phenomenon.

What our consciousness is experiencing is just a sliver of the infinite, multiple realities where we exist simultaneously

You have access to everything that has ever happened or ever will happen if you can only open your consciousness to receive it.

Get to know the master within you. Fall at the feet of your Self.

Could you imagine a windstorm without the rustling of the leaves? You are made of the same stuff as the leaves–and the wind. You are meant to be rustled and sung.

When your chair is positioned facing the wall, you see the wall. When it is positioned facing the sea, you see the sea. The same is true for us. Perspective is everything. Align with the divine.

An act of mastery is mastery itself.

The programming of the consciousness is based upon what is accepted or believed.

The meaning of Sannyas is not well defined. Its meaning is not static

You can trust your gut instinct. Always.

Indeed, of the major religions, Islam offers no discernible sliver of valid notion for How Life Works.