Quotes by Speakers - Page 122

Joy is a practice, not an involuntary state.
Bryant McGill
The greatest joys are found not only in what we do and feel, but also in what we hope for.
Bryant McGill
People on corporate conveyor belts, like animals in slaughter-chutes are all part of the same big massacre of joy.
Bryant McGill
Every pain, addiction, anguish, longing, depression, anger or fearis an orphaned part of usseeking joy, some disowned shadow wanting to returnto the lightand homeof ourselves.
Jacob Nordby
There is no greater moment in life than that when we discover the unique design which has shaped our lives from the moment of birth, save one:The instant we recognize destiny, accept it and then begin to create the rest of our own lives within it using the power of free will.When this threshold has been crossed, nothing can stop our inevitable journey into the highest good for ourselves and all around us.This is healing.This is actualization.This is integration.This is joy.And it is the birthright of every incarnated soul on this planet.
Jacob Nordby
When you stop doing what insults your Soul, your Journey accelerates and your Life beings to fill with joy.
Sue Fitzmaurice
Even when we're standing at the scariest precipice ever, our soul still cries out for joy.
Sue Fitzmaurice
As you walk with Jesus, resting your head on His heart, you will learn to know His Word, His will, and His ways. You will want to obey Him, not out of forced compliance, but out of heartfelt connection. Your joy will abound as you remain in His love.
Sue Detweiler
We have been shown how to fight hate without becoming hate ourselves. We have been given a Companion and a Friend and not just a good idea. We have been given joy in the midst of failure, and not just a way of winning or being right.
Richard Rohr
Allow your joy to exceed anyone else’s negativity.
Robbie Vorhaus
No matter what you do, 10% of the population will not like you.
Joyce Meyer
Although we may encounter dark seasons, when we're filled with joy we'll have confident expectations that the sun will soon return and dark clouds will pass.
Dana Arcuri
Once I started trying to give positive reviews, though, I began to understand how much happiness I took from the joyous ones in my life---and how much effort it must take for them to be consistently good=tempered and positive. It is easy to be heavy; hard to be light. We nonjoyous types suck energy and cheer from the joyous ones; we rely on them to buoy us with their good spirit and to cushion our agitation and anxiety. At the same time, because of a dark element in human nature, we're sometimes provoked to try to shake the enthusiastic, cheery folk out of their fog of illusion---to make them see that the play was stupid, the money was wasted, the meeting was pointless. Instead of shielding their joy, we blast it.
Gretchen Rubin
It is clear we exist in an abundant living Universe that knows no restriction—only the impulse to eternally expand with no limits or boundaries, perpetually becoming more of what it is and can ever be—star-stuff . . . Life, pushing out by creating light and matter from within itself, shaping and giving form to itself, exquisitely clothing itself in an infinite and unique number of ways.
Dennis Merritt Jones
The greatest joy in traveling is seeing where you end up.
Ken Poirot
There’s surprising relief and regeneration in finding ourselves within a moment of genuine grace, however small or temporary it may be.
Darrell Calkins
Is there plenty of celebration in your life? How about your spiritual life? Is it an exercise in following rules and practices? Or does it look more like a joyous celebration?
Steve Goodier
The world is always in a hurry, but I teach My children patience. Live, expecting a full and joyous life. And learn to trust My perfect timing so that you may discover that all the pain found in waiting has a magnificent and awesome purpose.
Eric Ludy
Happiness is the joy you feel striving toward your potential
Shawn Achor
True happiness is not found. It finds you.
Tony Reinke
What is most decisive is God's Joy Project is not that we fully grasp it, but that our sovereign God fully grasps us.
Tony Reinke
Worthy or not, you will receive your destiny. Awake or not you will notice.
Julieanne O'Connor
The joy and smile of even one child is worth more than the prancing intellects of a thousand men, for we are, that we might have joy, and be free.
Bryant McGill
The essence of life is not in the great victories and grand failures, but in the simple joys.
Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
If you celebrate your differentness, the world will, too. It believes exactly what you tell it—through the words you use to describe yourself, the actions you take to care for yourself, and the choices you make to express yourself. Tell the world you are one-of-a-kind creation who came here to experience wonder and spread joy. Expect to be accommodated.
Victoria Moran
To conquer your biology, stop seeing people sexually and start seeing them as family. In our day, we have really a perverted notion where it's like strangers and potential sexual objects.
Mark Driscoll
Singles, fornicating is an internship for adultery.
Mark Driscoll
Part of the fruit of the Spirit is self-control. Once you get married, however, a good defense is frequency and freedom.
Mark Driscoll
Billions of people have had sex. I don't know how many have actually made love.
Sheila Wray Gregoire
Love is the essential ingredient. Without it, sex is meaningless, approval is bribery, and success is short-lived.
Vironika Tugaleva
The critic is to art what the limp penis is to sex.
Steve Maraboli
One thing more, Leon. You say that life is meaningless, but I believe it's life that's sacred. I talk about art and sex because they're the most intense life experiences I know, so I feel they must be sacred too. They let us experience the values we've chosen for our lives in one exquisite moment not of pleasure exactly but of oneness with all of existence and with our own personal relationship to it. Art says: "This is Life." Sex says: "This is Living.
Alexandra York
I find it easier to claim that I am friends with a monkey rather than with a man.
Shahla Khan
There is an irony in how Christians talk about and understand sexuality. Christians often lament the world's reductionism of sex to genital interaction and raw physical pleasures, but then they typically reduce a gay person's sexuality to just that.
Wendy Vanderwal-Gritter
Romance begins upstairs, then culminates downstairs.
T.F. Hodge
Love making is much more than physical expression, it is a soulful dance of sensual wonder and euphoric amazement.
T.F. Hodge
There is no such thing as safe sex, since no one can create a condom for the soul.
Jayce O'Neal
I am not your victim because you are not a predator any more than a bottle of scotch stalks an alcoholic.
Sue William Silverman
I've given guys blow jobs just because I've run out of things to talk about.'Oh, Rae. Who hasn't
Anne Lamott
Men who refuse to use condoms do not deserve to be fucked by anyone but other men who refuse to use condoms.
Inga Muscio
Oftentimes, especially during my recovery, I didn’t need to think about everything I was doing wrong; instead, I needed to focus more on what I was doing right—and then do more of the right stuff. I needed to live more in the solution.
Jenni Schaefer
When you have experienced the depth of your inner self, the idea of enlightenment is no longer a goal to strive towards, but rather an attitude to maintain.
Gary Hopkins
In the past, I was a perpetual victim; how I was doing in any given moment depended on what happened to me. Today I do my best to avoid this kind of ‘victim thinking.’ Instead, how I am doing is determined by how I respond to what happens to me.
Jenni Schaefer
With Ed, I always pushed away the good and only heard the bad. Today, I let in the good.
Jenni Schaefer
Like food is to the body, self-talk is to the mind. Don't let any junk thoughts repeat in your head.
Maddy Malhotra
You see what you choose to see, because all perception is a choice.And when you cease to impose your meanings on what you see,your spiritual eyes will open, and you will see a world free of judgmentand shining in its endless beauty.
Paul Ferrini
Thoughts are magnetic. What we think about we attract.
Jon Gordon
Though life may not always go the way you please, remember to always see the forest through the trees.
Jennifer Sodini
Always let your heart shine bright, because this inner light will guide you home, even in the darkest night.
Jennifer Sodini
Glow with the flow.
Jennifer Sodini
What seeks you when you are not seeking, is the universe's way of speaking to you without speaking.
Jennifer Sodini
For it is through the darkness of the evening that we are able to see the stars. Without this darkness, we would never get to experience the beauty of the cosmos, or understand the little bits of light in life that shine through the void.
Jennifer Sodini
Just like your body naturally responds positively to some foods, your mind naturally responds positively to some thoughts.
Vironika Tugaleva
When I capture my thoughts and compare them to the truth of God’s Word, I often find they are false, deceptive, or destructive.
Lori Hatcher
In today's world, it is tempting to follow suit and artificially numb the emotions you don't want while inducing the ones that you do want. The problem is that pushing pleasure into your veins will not get you out of quicksand, nor will blocking pain bring you relief. The solutions do not lie in the world of emotions, but rather in the world of thoughts.
Vironika Tugaleva
Accept myself, and expect more of myself. Give myself limits to give myself freedom. Make people happier by acknowledging that they’re not feeling happy. Plan ahead to be spontaneous; only with careful preparation do I feel carefree. Accomplish more by working less. Happiness doesn’t always make me feel happy. Flawed can be more perfect than perfection. It’s very hard to make things easier. My material desires have a spiritual aspect. Hell is other people. Heaven is other people.What was “happiness,” anyway, and was it even possible to make myself happier?
Gretchen Rubin
Your mind can make the darkest day bright and the brightest day dark.
Maddy Malhotra
Happiness is an emotion based on positive circumstances within our lives. The origin of the word “happiness” was derived from the same root “hap”, similar to the word “happening.” Depending on what's happening in our lives, we're either happy or sad. It's based on pure luck and good fortune.
Dana Arcuri
God is calling you to relinquish your old habits and beliefs that are holding you back from being all He called you to be. To trust that He has something bigger and better in store for you.
Dana Arcuri