Quotes by Speakers - Page 73

You being in your flow helps the rest of us fall into ours.
Tehya Sky
We are the guardians of our beings.
Tehya Sky
Could you imagine a windstorm without the rustling of the leaves? You are made of the same stuff as the leaves–and the wind. You are meant to be rustled and sung.
Tehya Sky
When your chair is positioned facing the wall, you see the wall. When it is positioned facing the sea, you see the sea. The same is true for us. Perspective is everything. Align with the divine.
Tehya Sky
Get to know who you are not, because when you know your ego the Truth of who you are will also become clear.
Maria Erving
Everything is consciousness. YOU are consciousness and everything around you is a reflection of your [state of] consciousness.When you shift your consciousness, when you change, your life changes too.
Maria Erving
Serious spiritual practice is more than serene walks in the woods, lit candles and incense. You have to be committed. You have to be willing to enter into your own darkness and transcend it.
Maria Erving
The awakening process is not about 'finding who you are' but more about finding out about the ego, about who you are not.
Maria Erving
Even this is paradoxical because even though the ego does all the spiritual practice in the beginning,it’s the Truth that has orchestrated it all.
Maria Erving
Awakening means you’ve come home to yourself, that consciousness shifted back to its original nature.
Maria Erving
The ego cleverly hides by projecting and by avoiding to look beyond what it merely believes.
Maria Erving
Consciousness precedes phenomenon, and therefore consciousness can alter phenomenon.
Shai Tubali
If you don't believe in God, it may help to remember this great line of Geneen Roth's: that awareness is learning to keep yourself company. And then learn to be more compassionate company, as if you were somebody you are fond of and wish to encourage. I doubt that you would read a close friend's early efforts and, in his or her presence, roll your eyes and snicker. I doubt that you would pantomime sticking your finger down your throat. I think you might say something along the lines of, 'Good for you. We can work out some of the problems later, but for now, full steam ahead!
Anne Lamott
We absolutely must battle with every bit of determination we can muster to root out the harm that would warp the souls and spirits of children in our world.
Wess Stafford
As you begin to look deeply into the mystery of your own evolution, in place of good and evil you will find only stories, finished or unfinished.
Eric Micha'el Leventhal
Don't let the evil actions of broken people define your view of our world! Don't be terrorized into a diluted, hopeless reality.
Steve Maraboli
I am an Agnostic because I am not afraid to think. I am not afraid of any god in the universe who would send me or any other man or woman to hell. If there were such a being, he would not be a god; he would be a devil.
Clarence Darrow
Maybe our greatest enemy isn’t the evil around us, but the evil inside us.
Ricky Maye
Don't let the evil actions of broken people define your view of our world! Don’t be terrorized into a diluted, hopeless reality.
Steve Maraboli
You must be a light unto yourself.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
If not me then who? Confront evil!
Ken Poirot
All that's required for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing.
Richard Paul Evans
The criminals who, in the face of contumely, hatred or violence, have led the world to a higher standard and brought humanity to a diviner order, have so loved truth and righteousness as to defy the law, and in every age these men have met the life of outcasts, and the death of felons. Whatever may be said of the necessity of government to protect itself, no one can believe that any human being merits punishment for following his own highest ideal. Punishment can only be in any wise defended upon the theory that the individual is untrue to himself, that his heart is bad. But all schemes of human punishment seem specially contrived to exempt this class of men. Those who are untrue to themselves find no difficulty in obeying the state, or at least in seeming to be subservient to its laws. The cunning man without strong convictions of right and wrong can always find ample room to operate his trade inside the dead line the law lays down. Even Blackstone wrote that a man who governed his conduct solely by the law was neither an honest man nor a good citizen. The penal code cannot pretend to cover all the vicious acts of men. If there is a distinction between vicious acts and righteous acts, each are so numerous that even to catalogue them would be beyond the power of the state.
Clarence Darrow
Why is it that good always has to fight an uphill battle?"I thought for a moment, then said, "I don't know. Maybe that's the point. Good things are higher up.
Richard Paul Evans
O [Roman] people be ashamed; be ashamed of your lives. Almost no cities are free of evil dens, are altogether free of impurities, except the cities in which the barbarians have begun to live...Let nobody think otherwise, the vices of our bad lives have alone conquered us...The Goths lie, but are chaste, the Franks lie, but are but are generous, the Saxons are savage in cruelty...but are admirable in chastity...what hope can there be [for the Romans] when the barbarians are more pure [than they]?"-Salvian
William J. Federer
You've been marked and labeled in the spiritual world just by virtue of your birth. If you claim the family name of Christian, you are being hunted to be destroyed.
Kenny Luck
If you say there is no such thing as morality in absolute terms, then child abuse is not evil, it just may not happen to be your thing.
Rebecca Manley Pippert
Fate is an excuse for people who are too stupid or too weak to make their own future," he said.
Richard Paul Evans
Fate does not bend for us-we must bend to it.
Richard Paul Evans
For most of my life I have thought of grace as a hope of a bright tomorrow in spite of the darkness of today--and this is true. In this way we are all like Pamela, walking a road to grace--hoping for mercy. What we fail to realize is that grace is more than our destination, it is the journey itself, manifested in each breath and with each step we take. Grace surrounds us, whirls about us like the wind, falls on us like rain. Grace sustains us on our journeys, no matter how perilous they may be and, make no mistake, they are all perilous. We need not hope for grace, we merely need to open our eyes to its abundance. Grace is all around us, not just in the hopeful future but in the miracle of now.
Richard Paul Evans
Don't let anyone charge you for what God has freely given.
Paul Ellis
Grace is not a doctrine or a religion. It is a person, Jesus Christ.
John Paul Warren
Let today be the day you learn the grace of letting go and the power of moving on.
Steve Maraboli
God can't clean the house of you when you're still in it.
Anne Lamott
We have taught this generation how to "market" the Gospel but we have neglected to encourage them to "preach" the Gospel.
John Paul Warren
We have created a culture of leadership "development" in the Church at the expense of ignore the ministry of the Church to making disciples.
John Paul Warren
I know nothing, except what everyone knows--if there when grace dances, I should dance.
Anne Lamott
The “Gospel” is not a sermon title or the name of a book in the Bible. The Gospel is the person of Jesus Christ and it is the power of God to bring people to salvation. Romans 1:16
John Paul Warren
I am relentlessly determine to be occupied with Jesus Christ and His Glorious Gospel and nothing else.
John Paul Warren
Grace (the Gospel) is under attack today simply because it reveals the GOODNESS of God. Nothing reveals the GOODNESS of God more than grace.
John Paul Warren
Grace equals ability. God gives us grace to match our call. When we do our own thing, we do it on our own. When we follow His leading, He always supplies the grace and the energy to do what He's calling us to do.
Joyce Meyer
Freedom found me the day I realized I was not bound to witchcraft. The FATHER was waiting, He was scanning the horizon for the day I would realize I could come home. And He ran to welcome me into His loving arms.
Kristine McGuire
When you have nothing to offer, love gives abundantly.
E'yen A. Gardner
Come and discover a love you don't have to work for.
E'yen A. Gardner
Reading the scriptures through the lenses of the Law you see God as unapproachable, through the lenses of Grace you see the outstretched arms of Jesus saying "come".
John Paul Warren
I need God’s grace and something baked with peanut butter and chocolate.
Gloria Furman
The fire of God comes where ever there is a sacrifice.
John Paul Warren
Repentance is not merely turning away from your sin but turning to the Lamb who takes away your sin. "Behold, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world". 1 John 1:29
John Paul Warren
ritual maturity is not defined by how well one applies Biblical principles to “suppress sin”. If you are capable of suppressing your sins or managing them, you would have no need for a Redeemer.
John Paul Warren
Spiritual maturity is not defined by how well one applies Biblical principles to “suppress sin”. If you are capable of suppressing your sins or managing them, you would have no need for a Redeemer.
John Paul Warren
Today you will envy the blessings of another, or you will bask in the wonder of the amazing grace you have been given.
Paul David Tripp
We make a fatal mistake when we try to force Scripture to offer redemption to those who want to go to heaven but who don't want a relationship with the living God. By trying to offer some minimal standard of conduct that will allow them to qualify for salvation while continuing to to pursue their own agendas, we distort the gospel and destroy its power, and we concoct legalistic games to give them a false sense of security.
Wayne Jacobsen
Grace does not depend on what we have done, but on what God has done for us.
Wendy Blight
There is no shame here. The places where we still fear are simply the places we have yet to fully receive God’s love. Only by his grace and in his love can we let our fear go. Let go and receive. Receive his dreams. Receive his love. It is an exchange of fear for desire. It is an exchange of death for life. There is no fear in love. And I can tell you this with certainty: God does not want you to live in fear. And he does want you to live. Don’t be afraid. Just believe.
Stasi Eldredge
If we want to give grace to our children, then first we must be willing to receive it ourselves from God.
Gloria Furman
There are graceful ways of accessing your purpose and success, with time, invitation, gentleness, cooperation and surrender.
Bryant McGill
Through the grace shown to us in the gospel, there is something distinctly Christlike about a mother's love for her child.
Gloria Furman
Comport yourself with grace under pressure.
Bryant McGill
There are gentler and more graceful ways to interface with natural conflict.
Bryant McGill
We stitch together quilts of meaning to keep us warm and safe, with whatever patches of beauty and utility we have on hand.
Anne Lamott