Quotes by Speakers - Page 109

The only thing limiting you is yourself.
Ken Poirot
Live your life without ever having to ask, 'What if?
Ken Poirot
Often in life the pleasure of the journey is only eclipsed by the ecstasy of the destination.
Ken Poirot
Everyone has instances or times in life when they feel alone on their journey.
Ken Poirot
I feel the reason we are all here, our purpose of being, is to help others find their little piece of happiness and heaven right here on earth...
Ken Poirot
The Time (T) and Energy (E) we invest in others, people will take it and carry it with them.
Ken Poirot
We can't change yesterday, but we can change tomorrow...
Ken Poirot
You were meant to be right here right now...so make the most of it!
Ken Poirot
Isn't it ironic that a nightmare can masquerade as a dream?
Ken Poirot
The dreams we had of finding meaning and fulfillment through our jobs have faded into the reality of professional politics, burnout, boredom and intense competition.
Vicki Robin
What if you wake up some day, and you’re 65… and you were just so strung out on perfectionism and people-pleasing that you forgot to have a big juicy creative life?
Anne Lamott
Oh my God, what if you wake up some day, and you’re 65, or 75, and you never got your memoir or novel written; or you didn’t go swimming in warm pools and oceans all those years because your thighs were jiggly and you had a nice big comfortable tummy; or you were just so strung out on perfectionism and people-pleasing that you forgot to have a big juicy creative life, of imagination and radical silliness and staring off into space like when you were a kid? It’s going to break your heart. Don’t let this happen.
Anne Lamott
I needed someone to tell me that I was sane, that I was special, and that I wasn't all that special.
Danielle LaPorte
NOBODY knows better than you what's right for you. NOBODY. Let me say what I really mean: NOBODY. Advice? Get some. Oracles? Consult them. Friends? Worship them. Actual gurus? Honour them. Final say? YOU. All you. No matter what. No matter how psychic that psychic is, or how rich the business consultant is, or how magical the healer, or bendy the yoga instructor. All that experts offer you is data for you to take into consideration. YOU are the centrifugal force that must filter, interpret, and give meaning to that data.
Danielle LaPorte
Don't count your blessings, let your blessings count! EnjoyLife!
Bernard Kelvin Clive
Life is a wall, you have to climb it by pushing others to climb over and you will be pushed as well. Give a helping hand today.
Bernard Kelvin Clive
Life is 10% of what happens to us and 90% of how we react to it
JOHN C MAXWELL
There's a traditional Kenyan prayer: "From the cowardice that dares not deal with new truth, from the laziness that is content with half-truth, from the arrogance that thinks it knows all truth, Good Lord, deliver me.
Joni Rodgers
Leaders in touch with heaven can move earth
Reggie McNeal
Pray when you feel like praying," somebody has said. "Pray when you don't feel like praying. Pray until you do feel like praying.
Chip Ingram
I’m convinced that one of the most powerful forces on earth is the prayer of a child.
Wess Stafford
Here are the two best prayers I know: 'Help me, help me, help me' and 'Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Anne Lamott
God withholds blessing only in wisdom, never in spite or aloofness.
Elisabeth Elliot
Cold prayers, like cold suitors, are seldom effective in their aims.
Elisabeth Elliot
Human lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don't make much sense. This is the message of the Book of Job: Any snappy explanation of suffering you come up with will be horseshit.
Anne Lamott
A nun I know once told me she kept begging God to take her character defects away from her. After years of this prayer, God finally got back to her: I'm not going to take anything away from you, you have to give it to Me.
Anne Lamott
If we stay where we are, where we're stuck, where we're comfortable and safe, we die there... When nothing new can get in, that's death.
Anne Lamott
...the three things I cannot change are the past, the truth, and you.
Anne Lamott
Or you might shout at the top of your lungs or whisper into your sleeve, "I hate you, God." That is a prayer too, because it is real, it is truth, and maybe it is the first sincere thought you've had in months.
Anne Lamott
It was not apathy or passiveness. For him, prayer was a display of the strongest possible activity.
Eric Metaxas
These two things are almost all I want, but unfortunately, neither one is my strong suit. I am very strong on blame, and wish this were one of God's values, but trust, surrender? Letting go, forgiveness? Maybe just after a period of prayer, but then when the mood passes and real life rears its ugly head again? Not so much. I hate this, the fact that life is usually Chutes and Ladders, with no guaranteed gains.I cannot will myself into having these qualities, so I have to pray for them more often, if I want to be happy. I have to create the habit, just as I had to do with daily writing, and flossing.
Anne Lamott
My belief is that when you're telling the truth, you're close to God. If you say to God, "I am exhausted and depressed beyond words, and I don't like You at all right now, and I recoil from most people who believe in You," that might be the most honest thing you've ever said. If you told me you had said to God, "It is all hopeless, and I don't have a clue if You exist, but I could use a hand," it would almost bring tears to my eyes, tears of pride in you, for the courage it takes to get real-really real. It would make me want to sit next to you at the dinner table.So prayer is our sometimes real selves trying to communicate with the Real, with Truth, with the Light. It is us reaching out to be heard, hoping to be found by a light and warmth in the world, instead of darkness and cold. Even mushrooms respond to light - I suppose they blink their mushroomy eyes, like the rest of us.Light reveals us to ourselves, which is not always so great if you find yourself in a big disgusting mess, possibly of your own creation. But like sunflowers we turn toward light. Light warms, and in most cases it draws us to itself. And in this light, we can see beyond our modest receptors, to what is way beyond us, and deep inside.
Anne Lamott
Grace works that way. It's a kind word from a gentle person with an impossible prayer. It's a force sometimes transmitted best hand to hand in a dark place.
Bob Goff
The kingdom comes when Jesus becomes king of your life. But it has to be your life.
Paul E. Miller
In order to pray like a child, you might need to unlearn the nonpersonal, nonreal praying that you've been taught.
Paul E. Miller
...Jesus opens his arms to his needy children and says, "Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest"(Matthew 11:28, NASB). The criteria for coming to Jesus is weariness. Come overwhelmed with life. Come with you wandering mind. Come messy.
Paul E. Miller
We have an allergic reaction to dependency, but this is the state of the heart most necessary for a praying life. A need heart is a praying heart. Dependency is the heartbeat of prayer.
Paul E. Miller
We don't know how bad we are until we try to be good. Nothing exposes our selfishness and spiritual pwerlessness like prayer.
Paul E. Miller
When I look back, I realize I was praying for something God had already given me.
Steve Maraboli
Pray FOR positive outcomes, never ON perceived dilemmas
T.F. Hodge
In moments of prayer, people tend to pose as a critic and point out perceived flaws in God's art.
Steve Maraboli
Sometimes not getting what you want is God's greatest blessing.
Steve Maraboli
She inhaled a worry. She exhaled a prayer." Mary Lou Quinlan, author
Mary Lou Quinlan
Choose God, his word, prayer, and spiritual vitamins. As you fight the battle with these tools, you will also be simultaneously choosing your victory.
Tracie Miles
Author challenges parents to bridge the gap with maturing, more independent kids with what he calls "Knock and Pray". He says parents should invite their kids to unscheduled times to "pray... big".
Jay Payleitner
. . . you have no idea how many people there are in the world whose day could be made and their life changed for the better if someone would just look them in the eye, smile, and say, "Hello.
Stormie Omartian
I must exchange whispers with God before shouts with the world.
Lysa TerKeurst
The people who know God well—mystics, hermits, prayerful people, those who risk everything to find God—always meet a lover, not a dictator.
Richard Rohr
We both just stood there. I let the breeze brush against my skin, the sun release the tension in my muscles. It was as close as I had felt to God in a long time. "It's like we're praying," Celeste whispered. "Only we're not saying anything.
Nancy N. Rue
The battle for our lives, and the lives of our children, our husbands, our friends, our families, & our nation, is waged on our knees.
Stormie Omartian
The battle for our lives, and the lives of our children, our husbands, our friends, our families, and our nation, is waged on our knees.
Stormie Omartian
Praying is not telling God what to do. It’s trusting that God knows what to do.
Stormie Omartian
When we forgive someone, it doesn’t justify what they’ve done. It releases them into God’s hands so He can deal with them.
Stormie Omartian
The quality of your relationships will determine the quality of your life. And this is something worth praying about.
Stormie Omartian
People’s love for us may change, depending on what we do or don’t do to please them. But God’s does not—it’s everlasting.
Stormie Omartian
In the darkest times of your life, your praise to God should be the loudest. Let the enemy know you’re not afraid of the dark.
Stormie Omartian
God wants to bless us in many ways that require faith. We must trust that He is answering our prayers even when we can’t see it.
Stormie Omartian
Allow yourself to be possessed by God by receiving Jesus, and you will never be possessed by anything else.
Stormie Omartian
The phrase “timing is everything” is never more true than in your walk with God—HIS timing is everything.
Stormie Omartian
Talking to God should be part of every aspect of life, in times of peace as well as in every battle.
Stormie Omartian