Our Quotes
Media are means of extending and enlarging our organic sense lives into our environment.
Most of our stress and suffering come not from events, but from our thoughts. Reframe from negative thoughts, and stress subsides.
I'm not saying we have power over everything in our lives - if that were true, my hair would look so, so different - but I am saying that there's no circumstance in which we are completely powerless.
The holy days are the best times to focus on real enthusiasm, the inner source that lightens and sanctifies our lives all year.
Constantly measuring ourselves against others sours and shortens our lives, robbing us of the very things we think it will bring: prosperity, love, inner peace, the knowledge that we’re good enough.
In more than half the nations of our world, torture certifies that the form of government is tyranny. Only tyranny, no matter how camouflaged, needs and employs torturers. Torture has no ideology.
![Our Quotes: "[On the United States:] We are a wildly energetic people in our pursuit of pleasure, let alone in our pursuit of money, and we are very odd to look at as we go about our lives."](https://www.quoteslyfe.com/images/collection3/quotations861/On-the-United-States-We-are-a-861142.jpg)
[On the United States:] We are a wildly energetic people in our pursuit of pleasure, let alone in our pursuit of money, and we are very odd to look at as we go about our lives.
As elected leaders, we must each recommit ourselves to work together toward putting our country on a prosperous, sustainable path and restoring Americas promise as a land of opportunity.
The American people want solutions to the problems our country faces. They may disagree on exactly how to address the issues, but they want them addressed all the same.
![Our Quotes: "Exhort your household to learn [the Ten Commandments] word for word, that they should obey God…For if you teach and urge your families things will go forward."](https://www.quoteslyfe.com/images/collection3/quotations863/Exhort-your-household-to-learn-the-Ten-863149.jpg)
Exhort your household to learn [the Ten Commandments] word for word, that they should obey God…For if you teach and urge your families things will go forward.
Our Lord God doeth work like a printer who setteth the letters backwards; we see and feel well his setting, but we shall see the print yonder - in the life to come.
Our lives are not fully lived if we're not willing to die for those we love, for what we believe.
In our society, it is psychological murder to deprive a man of a job...you are in substance saying to that man "You have no right to exist.
Our generation will not have regretted both perverse crimes, and the eerie silence of the kind
There is something wrong with our world, something fundamentally and basically wrong.
The sooner our society admits that the Negro Revolution is no momentary outburst soon to subside into placid passivity, the easier the future will be for us all.
We can't slow up because of our love for democracy and our love for America. Someone should tell Faulkner that the vast majority of the people on this globe are colored.
We cannot leave the expression of our lives to those better qualified than we are, however dear they may be.
Just in our lifetime our society has become looser and more private, it becomes extremely difficult to hold to any permanent commitment whatever, least of all to organized religion.
Do certain events in our lives leave a permanent mark, freezing a piece of us in time, and that becomes a touchstone that we measure the rest of our lives against?
What's important to have is a president that's focused on jobs, the economy, giving our children a better future and keeping our nation strong and safe.
The soul wanders in the dark, until it finds love. And so, wherever our love goes, there we find our soul.
I feel it is our inherent duty as a humane society, above any intangible responsibility, to invest in our world's children's potential, passion and confidence.
Engaging the city around us and ministering to its needs reveal to us the remaining bastions of sin in our lives, the areas we refuse to surrender to God.
I've resigned myself to the fact that the world needs clowns, too, and I was born to be one of them. And it is an important role in our society to play. I try to embrace the silliness of it.
Liberals like using government to solve problems in OUR country and conservatives are using our government to solve problems in OTHER countries.
I think everyone is given drama, by virtue of the fact that we all have drama in our lives, but not everyone can make people laugh.
We all get damned in our lives, and there are ripple effects. One thing can determine a life, and it's hard to overcome that if the event is really traumatic. Your life is completely condemned by it.
It is only in the space that our thoughts and our feelings enclose that our happiness can breathe in freedom.
Physical suffering apart, not a single sorrow exists that can touch us except through our thoughts.
Recalling what our lives were like before Jesus Christ entered them will help keep our daily problems in perspective.
Honesty and vulnerability endear us to people; they don't endanger us in our relationship.
![Our Quotes: "If relationships matter most then [at the end of our lives], shouldn't they matter most now?"](https://www.quoteslyfe.com/images/collection3/quotations875/If-relationships-matter-most-then-at-the-875652.jpg)
If relationships matter most then [at the end of our lives], shouldn't they matter most now?
Sometimes when you read the Bible, you find yourself asking, "How does this book know that about me? How does it know that about our world - especially when it was written so long ago?"
If our children are to approve of themselves, they must see that we approve of ourselves.
And that whole do-able/undo-able thing? Yeah. Need I point out that neither Ruth nor I have ever "done" anybody in our lives?
Social media has changed everything in our world. The collective humanity, as it was, has such a voice these days, and that's never really existed before.
