Quotes by Speakers - Page 52

Love is not the opposite of power. Love IS power. Love is the strongest power there is.
Vironika Tugaleva
Her love... so unconditional, so unapologetic; reminds me that I am worth so much more than the standard I have set for myself.
Steve Maraboli
She didn't know if it was God. She wasn't really sure what to call it. She just knew she believe in unconditional love. And that was really all that mattered.
Hannah Brencher
Puppies are a reflection of unconditional love, entrusted to us like precious seeds. We water them with praise, patience, and love, and watch them grow into full bloom.
Leila Grandemange
But I give best when I give from that deeper place; when I give simply, freely and generously, and sometimes for no particular reason. I give best when I give from my heart.
Steve Goodier
What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.' A. W. Tozer wrote that, talking about how people project their opinions about God onto the world. He was asking those of us who believe in God- which is most of us - what God it is we believe in. Good question....we project onto God our worst attitudes and feelings about ourselves. As someone famously remarked, 'God made us in his own image and we have more than returned the compliment.' If we feel hatred for ourselves, it only makes sense that God hates us. Right?No, not so much.It's no good assuming God feels about us the way we feel about ourselves intensely and freely with complete wisdom and never-ending compassion. If the Christian story is true, the God who shows his love for us everywhere, in everything, expresses that love completely and finally in what Jesus did for us. Deal done -- can't add to, can't subtract from it. Any questions?"(pp. 20-21)
Brennan Manning
Julian of Norwich...wrote: 'Some of us believe that God is almighty and can do everything; and that he is all-wise and may do everything; but that he is all-love and will do everything -- there we draw back. As I see it, this ignorance is the greatest of all hindrances to God's lovers.' Where do we thing we are going when we draw back fro
Brennan Manning
[author quoting from his journal entry] "To feel safe is to stop living in my head and sink down into my heart and feel liked and accepted...not having to hide anymore and distract myself with books, television, movies, ice cream, shallow conversation...staying in the present moment and not escaping into the past or projecting into the future, alert and attentive to the now...feeling relaxed and not nervous or jittery...no need to impress or dazzle others or draw attention to myself...Unselfconscious, a new way of being with myself, a new way of being in the world...calm, unafraid, no anxiety about what's going to happen next...loved and valued...just being together as an end in itself." (p. 31)
Brennan Manning
We create our destiny by dreaming bigger than most people would think reasonable, by believing in ourselves more than most people would think sensible, by making decisions that most people would think illogical and continuing to act way beyond the point that most people would have given up.
Andrew Jobling
The day you STOP expecting people to have the same compassion as you do,love like you & act like you would in a situation...Will be the day that will people stop letting you down.
Stuart J. Scesney
There comes a point when you can only sweep so much under the rug, 'til you feel lumps under your feet and your path seems to become less comfortable.
Stuart J. Scesney
True authors don't write for fame or to make a name or money, they write to make impact
Bernard Kelvin Clive
When life gives you lemons...add melted butter , toasted paprika and dip some lobster in it!
Stuart J. Scesney
When life gives you lemons...add melted butter , toasted paprik and dip some lobster in it!
Stuart J. Scesney
When life gives you lemons...add melted butter , toasted paprike and dip some lobster in it!
Stuart J. Scesney
Have as much fun as you can in life because you never know when it will end.
Stuart J. Scesney
In his mercy, He sent the storm itself to make us seek help. And then knowing that we’re likely to get the wrong answer, He gives us a multiple choice exam with only one option to choose from: the correct answer. The hardship itself is ease. By taking away all other hand-holds, all other multiple choice options, He has made the test simple.It’s never easy to stand when the storm hits. And that’s exactly the point. By sending the wind, He brings us to our knees: the perfect position to pray
Yasmin Mogahed
The enduring life is the one that begins once we awaken from this world. And it is in that awakening that we realize… It was only a dream
Yasmin Mogahed
A sincere call to the Almighty can change what you may have thought was impossible to change. Never lose hope.
Mufti Ismail Menk
With my veil I put my faith on display—rather than my beauty. My value as a human is defined by my relationship with God, not by my looks. I cover the irrelevant. And when you look at me, you don’t see a body. You view me only for what I am: a servant of my Creator.You see, as a Muslim woman, I’ve been liberated from a silent kind of bondage. I don’t answer to the slaves of God on earth. I answer to their King.
Yasmin Mogahed
And while it’s nice of you to want to call us ‘modern’ or ‘moderate,’ we’ll do without the redundancy. Islam is by definition moderate, so the more strictly we adhere to its fundamentals — the more moderate we’ll be. And Islam is by nature timeless and universal, so if we’re truly Islamic — we’ll always be modern.We’re not ‘Progressives’; we’re not ‘Conservatives’. We’re not ‘neo-Salafi’; we’re not ‘Islamists’. We’re not ‘Traditionalists’; we’re not ‘Wahabis’. We’re not ‘Immigrants’ and we’re not ‘Indigenous’. Thanks, but we’ll do without your prefix.We’re just Muslim.
Yasmin Mogahed
It’s never easy to stand when the storm hits. And that’s exactly the point. By sending the wind, He brings us to our knees: the perfect position to pray.
Yasmin Mogahed
Tawakkul is having complete trust that Allah's plan is the best plan.
Yasmin Mogahed
We spend a lot of time trying to get more and more things, not realizing that those things can never fulfill us. Learn from those who have gone before you - stuff can never satisfy your desires, so focus on THE ONE who can.
Osayi Emokpae Lasisi
Keep your eyes on the prize for you cant hit an unseen target but don't forget to pay the price
Bernard Kelvin Clive
Intense, sustained focus fuels manifestation.
T.F. Hodge
Focus isn't about hammering one nail all our lives.It’s about hammering lots of nails, one way, all our lives.
Scott Ginsberg
Name your intention.
Patti Digh
The author explores the result of endless choice. It is not only overload, but a profound loss of unity, solidity, and coherence in life.
Os Guinness
When you focus on want, you become an endless cycle of wants. To get, simply release, and then gently invite.
Bryant McGill
Everything you need comes into focus when you abandon the unneeded.
Bryant McGill
When you focus on want, you become an endless cycle of wants.
Bryant McGill
All of history has pointed its refining focus to your life this moment.
Bryant McGill
When one learns to focus energy through surrender and sensitivity, they become free, and can access the expansiveness of endless possibility.
Bryant McGill
When life throws you a curve ball, have a good eye.
T.F. Hodge
Making the attempt is what matters most.
Gary Hopkins
Mix a little time with some space, and suddenly good things fall right into place. No worries, don't doubt it - just build!
T.F. Hodge
All true leaders have learned to say no to the good in order to say yes to the best.
John Maxwell
Every morning, you have a choice either to make your day relaxed or stressful. To be thankful for what you have or to complain about what you don’t have. To count your achievements and celebrate them, or to dwell on the mistakes of your past and feel bad. To take action to make things better, or to continue on in mediocrity.
Maddy Malhotra
Personal Brand Focus: Immediately you try to reach the masses with your brand you dilute your brand's power and falls into the average zone. You cease to be remarkable
Bernard Kelvin Clive
Life is too short to major the MINOR and MINOR the major. Make the main thing the main thing and the world will make you the MAIN man
Sesan Kareem
He well knew his mind's natural tendency to be endlessly on a thousand subjects at once, to flit from this to that and to the next thing to no particular purpose--indeed, he called it his "butterfly mind.
Eric Metaxas
It is better for you to take responsibility for your life as it is, instead of blaming others, or circumstances, for your predicament. As your eyes open, you'll see that your state of health, happiness, and every circumstance of your life has been, in large part, arranged by you - consciously or unconsciously.
Dan Millman
Ideally, love is unconditional; practically, it is more often the opposite.
T.F. Hodge
Don't say you're a writer if you're not writing. Even if you're writing, don't call yourself a writer. Say instead, 'I write.' It's the verb that's important, not the noun.
Patti Digh
I write because if I don’t let it out of my system, I will die with guilt.
Shahla Khan
To be an effective criminal defense counsel, an attorney must be prepared to be demanding, outrageous, irreverent, blasphemous, a rogue, a renegade, and a hated, isolated, and lonely person - few love a spokesman for the despised and the damned.
Clarence Darrow
A writer paradoxically seeks the truth and tells lies every step of the way.
Anne Lamott
Seeing yourself in print is such an amazing concept: you can get so much attention without having to actually show up somewhere. While others who have something to say or who want to be effectual, like musicians or baseball players or politicians, have to get out there in front of people, writer who tend to be shy, get to stay at home and still be public.
Anne Lamott
Even great, best selling writers produce works that fall flat from expectations. This writing thing isn't easy and everything you produce won't be a best seller, but you must write anyway. You have to write because you love it, because it fuels you, because you can feel the stories living inside you, nudging you, prodding you, itching to get out and the only thing worse than writing it and failing is not writing it. As the late Maya Angelou once said, "There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."Even if your work doesn't resonate with others, it is still worth writing. And that in itself, is what's important.
Nancy Arroyo Ruffin
I never wanted to be saved, just loved in ways that would make the Gods jealous.
Nancy Arroyo Ruffin
You are a writer. You just need to write.
Jeff Goins
There may be a Nurse Ratched-like listing of things that must be done right this moment: foods that must come out of the freezer, appointments that must be canceled or made, hairs that must be tweezed. But you hold an imaginary gun to your head and make yourself stay at the desk.
Anne Lamott
Now, practically even better news than that of short assignments is the idea of shitty first drafts. All good writers write them.
Anne Lamott
For me and most of the other writers I know, writing is not rapturous. In fact, the only way I can get anything written at all is to write really, really shitty first drafts.
Anne Lamott
Almost every single thing you hope publication will do for you is a fantasy, a hologram--it's the eagle on your credit card that only seems to soar.
Anne Lamott
And then, unbidden, seemingly out of nowhere, a thought or image arrives. Some will float into your head like goldfish, lovely, bright, orange, and weightless, and you follow them like a child at an aquarium that was thought to be without fish. Others will step of the shadows like Boo Radley and make you catch your breath or take a step backward. They're often so rich, these unbidden thoughts, and so clear that they feel indelible. But I say write them all down anyway.
Anne Lamott
There are few experiences as depressing as that anxious barren state known as writer's block, where you sit staring at your blank page like a cadaver, feeling your mind congeal, feeling you talent run down your leg and into your sock.
Anne Lamott
You reclaim your power by loving what you were once taught to hate.
Bryant McGill
When I accept myself, I am freed from the burden of needing you to accept me.
Steve Maraboli