Quotes by Ukrainian Authors - Page 37

Sometimes "No" is the kindest word.
Vironika Tugaleva
Our daily endeavours and activities should be about or around these value systems. They reflect love. They reflect care. They reflect kindness. They are qualities of heaven.
Sunday Adelaja
Be kind to yourself. Remember that when you abuse yourself, you will experience the anger, regret, and apathy of the bully as well as the depression, anxiety, and insecurity of the victim. Whatever you do, be kind to yourself.
Vironika Tugaleva
When you see a person acting violently, ask yourself whether he knows how powerful he is. If he knew his power, would he feel the need to assert it?
Vironika Tugaleva
Though your acts of love and compassion cannot penetrate bandages or armour, they are never wasted and never lost. They sit within the recipient’s mind, awaiting his awakening.
Vironika Tugaleva
Once you understand love, you don’t need a reward your kindness or compassion just like you don’t need a reward for breathing.
Vironika Tugaleva
In the world of so-called villains, what we need is not another hero. What we need is to stop the influx of people who dress themselves as menaces and proceed to harm others.
Vironika Tugaleva
It is only once you see the baffled expression on the face of your enemy when you give his cruel words a warm smile that you’ll understand, truly understand, what love is all about.
Vironika Tugaleva
We deny the same love to others that we deny ourselves. We distort others in the same way we distort ourselves.
Vironika Tugaleva
By serving humanity, I automatically serve myself.
Vironika Tugaleva
When we can see our own self, angry and hurting others, within every villain, then we can love. When we can see our own desperate struggle for belonging in the eyes of every enemy, then we can love. When we can look at the greatest of atrocities and see the opportunity for healing within, then, and only then, can we really love.
Vironika Tugaleva
People who don’t know how to use their minds can’t really know how to use their hearts either.
Vironika Tugaleva
When we are in constant pain, we cannot empathize with others, nor can we help them. It is only when we allow ourselves to open up to our own nourishment that we are free to feed the rest of the world. And thus, to attend to one's own suffering is the most selfless act.
Vironika Tugaleva
Compassion brings people together.
Sunday Adelaja
To help people, love them. Then, they help themselves.
Vironika Tugaleva
Kindness that turns to bitterness when it is not appreciated was never kindness at all.
Vironika Tugaleva
Fall open. Break open. Sit with others' openness. Let love be your medicine.
Vironika Tugaleva
I wanted, for so long, for someone to understand me better than I understood myself, to take control of me, to save me, to make it all better. I thought that the hardest part of a loving, mutually healing relationship would be showing my vulnerable, raw spots to a person, even though I'd been hurt so many times before. This has not been the hardest part. The actual hardest part has been realizing that no one, no matter how compassionate and kind they are, will say the perfect things always. Myself included. The hardest part has been learning to communicate what I need, to hear what others need, to tell others how to tell me what they need. Intimacy takes a lot of communication. We all have triggers. I don't know your triggers and you don't know mine. No matter how much I love or trust you, you cannot possibly know exactly the words I need to hear, the words I don't want to hear, and the way I like to be touched. And how strange that we expect these things of each other. How strange, and self-sabotaging, that we refuse to get into relationships and friendships with people unless they treat us in just that perfect way. We've been raised to want fairy tales. We've been raised to wait for flawless saviors to rescue us. But the savior isn't flawless and the savior is not coming. The savior is you. The savior is still learning. The savior is never done learning. The savior is a human being. Forget perfect. Forget flawless. And start speaking your truth. Start speaking what you want and how you want it. And start asking and listening, really listening, to what the people around you say. Maybe, then, we will stop abandoning and hurting each other. Maybe, then, there's hope for us.
Vironika Tugaleva
When someone is cruel, harsh, mean, to not take their words personally is one thing, but to hear the silent cry within those words is another. This sort of perspective can not only liberate us from crippling self-doubt in the face of criticism, it can also liberate us from automatically becoming blind participants in the interaction patterns that the cruel person has become accustomed to—a favour we do for the other person as much as for ourselves.
Vironika Tugaleva
Let those feelings out. Talk about it. Even if you’re talking to your journal by yourself in an empty room. That still counts. That still matters.If you know someone who’s struggling and isolated, help them talk about it. Even if they don’t have the right words. Even if you sit in silence as they try to feel safe. Even if they shower you with complaints, excuses, and justifications. Even if you can see they’re just playing small, being irrational, blaming circumstances. Just be there. It all counts. It all matters.
Vironika Tugaleva
our life does not belong to us any more, it is now the life of Jesus Christ that lives in us.
Sunday Adelaja
We became God’s carriers because of the sacrifice of Jesus.
Sunday Adelaja
When Jesus enters a place revival fire begins.
Sunday Adelaja
The mountain of superstition has to be leveled for our people to taste a fresh breath of life in Christ Jesus.
Sunday Adelaja
I will not keep quiet until a revolution is started to fight ignorance and superstitions in the church of the lord Jesus Christ and in the nation of my birth.
Sunday Adelaja
To my shame, my nation and the church of the lord Jesus Christ in my continent is covered head to toe in this ignorance.
Sunday Adelaja
I have no doubt that ignorance is the biggest obstacle facing the church of the lord Jesus Christ in this age
Sunday Adelaja
Jesus became flesh to reveal God in His love and kindness
Sunday Adelaja
Each one of us also can become an image or likeness of God if we, like Jesus, the firstborn, give our bodies to him
Sunday Adelaja
We need to regard every problem or situation as an opportunity to be triumphant and celebrate the victory of Jesus in our lives
Sunday Adelaja
To refuse Jesus as the messiah is to be a hypocrite
Sunday Adelaja
God wants the simplicity and accessibility of Jesus Christ to be your main quality
Sunday Adelaja
Nothing should enslave you. Be dependent only on one person – Jesus Christ
Sunday Adelaja
When Jesus enters a country the fire of revival starts burning there
Sunday Adelaja
Jesus Christ is the most outstanding person who has ever lived on planet earth
Sunday Adelaja
We must stop seeing our anointed men and women of God as Seers, magic workers, Herbalist and native doctors.
Sunday Adelaja
That's what we've been taught, this is the underpinning of all European culture-this firm belief that there are no secrets that won't sooner or later come to light. Who was it that said it? Jesus? No, Pascal, I think it was… so naïve. But this faith has been nurtured for centuries; it has sprouted its own mythology: the cranes of Ibycus, manuscripts don't burn. An ontological faith in the fundamental knowability of every human deed. The certainty that, as they now teach journalism majors, you can find everything on the Internet. As if the Library of Alexandria never existed. Or the Pogruzhalsky arson, when the whole historical section of the Academy of Sciences' Public Library, more than six-hundred thousand volumes, including the Central Council archives from 1918, went up in flames. That was in the summer of 1964; Mom was pregnant with me already, and almost for an entire month afterward, as she made her way to work at the Lavra, she would get off the trolleybus when it got close to the university and take the subway the rest of the way: above ground, the stench from the site of the fire made her nauseous. Artem said there were early printed volumes and even chronicles in that section-our entire Middle Ages went up in smoke, almost all of the pre-Muscovite era. The arsonist was convicted after a widely publicized trial, and then was sent to work in Moldova's State Archives: the war went on. And we comforted ourselves with "manuscripts don't burn."Oh, but they do burn. And cannot be restored.
Oksana Zabuzhko
Do not pursue what you cannot keep.
Sunday Adelaja
Mercy and favor are miracles of God that give a man something he could not even dare to dream of.
Sunday Adelaja
Your dream is real
Sunday Adelaja
If we do not start doing something towards the fulfillment of our dream or,it will never come to pass
Sunday Adelaja
Most people spend their lives doing one of two things to their emotions: numbing or venting. Self-loving people do something very different—they accept each emotion as a piece of communication and they try to decode it. This way, emotions can become important guideposts on the journey of self-discovery, rather than annoying roadblocks.
Vironika Tugaleva
Jesus Christ is the Master of the business we are doing. We are not the master
Sunday Adelaja
The foundational stone for any business, enterprise or project has to be wisdom.
Sunday Adelaja
The truth is that as you are building your small business, still that small business needs to experience some form of increase and growth
Sunday Adelaja
God is looking for sons to send to the world of business to manage it for him.
Sunday Adelaja
Pastor Face Your Business” When people say this they mean that I must just stay behind the pulpit and preach
Sunday Adelaja
God wants you to begin to strategise, plan, draw out tactics, methodologies of how your business would take over that particular sphere of business where you are
Sunday Adelaja
What is my business in this? Oh yea, it is my business. It is not just my business, it is my calling.
Sunday Adelaja
When truth and honesty is successfully intertwined into the business world of a nation, the result is a boost in commerce.
Sunday Adelaja
Church and business are compatible
Sunday Adelaja
It is not God's business to bring security to people but it is our business to provide security for ourselves out of what he has given us.
Sunday Adelaja
Believe me, my boy, women don't love a man for himself but as a weapon against other women.
Irène Némirovsky
No good will remain unrewarded, if not by men, then by God.
Sunday Adelaja
Men are not great by the virtue of their wealth, but by the wealth of their virtue.
Sunday Adelaja
What the culture of get rich quick does to our people is young men only wish to do prestigious work
Sunday Adelaja
Whenever justice to ordinary men, widows, orphans, poor, disadvantaged and the general mass is delayed or denied, that leads to God’s frustration. At a time like that, God laments, WHERE IS A MAN
Sunday Adelaja
Men and women who possesses drive record more increase than those who are passive
Sunday Adelaja
All men have life, but only few men know its value.
Sunday Adelaja
Can you start a movement in your land that will encourage men and women to begin to think, to begin to make sound judgment and informed decisions? Will you bring illumination to your people? Will you facilitate understanding amidst those whom you live with? The earth is crying for people who make sound judgment and informed decisions
Sunday Adelaja