Quotes by Teachers - Page 16

Change what you can, accept what you can't, and be smart enough to know the difference.
Wally Lamb
A life I didn't choose chose me.
Wally Lamb
It is always necessary to acknowledge creative injuries and grieve them. Otherwise, they become creative scar tissue and block your growth.
Julia Cameron
So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning.
Aaron Copland
There is nothing more lonely than a true artist.
Tom Spanbauer
Too bad I didn't know you back then, I would have come and rescued you." Like he was Prince Charming or something. Which he is, in a way, because he rescued me from the simple, uncomplicated life I thought I liked until I realized how much I was missing. How lonely that life had been: going to work, going home, and watching TV, going places by myself on weekends.
Wally Lamb
Poem to Be Read at 3:00 A.M.by Donald JusticeExcepting the dinerOn the outskirtsThe town of Ladoraat 3 A.M.Was dark butFor my headlightsAnd up inOne second-story roomA single lightWhere someoneWas sick orPerhaps readingAs I drove pastAt seventyNot thinkingThis poemIs for whoeverHad the light on
Donald Justice
Much travel is needed before the raw man is ripened.
Idries Shah
Now is a time for, dare I say it, kindness. I thought being extremely smart would take care of it. But I see I have been found out.
Margaret Edson
People walk in the door because they need you to take care of them -- to feed them or fix them.
Wally Lamb
And there are many people, both Moslem and Christian, who have a good grasp of each others0 conceptions of surrender to God an other principles. But the widespread existence of bias, misinformation and lack of knowledge (…) militate against the effectiveness of dialogue, (…) by the most subtle and one of the most effective of instruments, the subconscious, almost the subliminal, introduction of hostility.
Idries Shah
Christian scholars often say that Sufi theories are close to those of Christianity. Many Moslems maintain that they are essentially derived from Islam. The resemblance of many Sufi ideas to those of several religious and esoteric systems are sometimes taken as evidence of derivation. The Islamic interpretation is that religion is of one origin, differences being due to local or historical causes.
Idries Shah
These lecture provide material for the consideration of common factors, in theory and in development, from the viewpoint of the idea of surrender to the Divine Will, reviewing some aspects of the interplay between Christians and Moslems, and introducing material from and about Sufis.
Idries Shah
… when we are talking about 'Christians' and 'Moslems' we must first make sure that we are talking about people who have an idea, which should be more or less correct, as to what the other is supposed to believe and what he is expected to do as a consequence of that belief.
Idries Shah
From a personal experience and the examination of literature, I feel that we cannot take for granted that a dialogue, without information and perhaps without understanding, is possible between any individuals or groups on all levels. So the prerequisite is information.
Idries Shah
The important place held by Jesus among the world's six hundred million Moslems... and the agreement of both religions about the necessity for surrender to God as the means of salvation, thus makes it comparatively easy for a Moslem to address himself to Christians: the sympathy and the history are already there.
Idries Shah
From imperial, economic and ideological causes, many cultures are the inheritors, and hence the prisoners, of attitudes of scorn and disdain for other faiths – outlooks which are not ennobling to anyone.
Idries Shah
Narrow all your interests until your mind, heart, and body are focused on Jesus Christ.
Oswald Chambers
No man by mere high human wisdom would dare undertake a step for Jesus’ sake unless he knows that the Holy Spirit has directly spoken to him; and until He comes, I shall not go.
Oswald Chambers
Paul was devoted to a Person, not a cause.
Oswald Chambers
You may often have to watch Jesus Christ wreck a life before He saves it.
Oswald Chambers
If sympathy is all that human beings need, then the Cross of Christ is an absurdity and there is absolutely no need for it. What the world needs is not "a little bit of love," but major surgery. If you think you are helping lost people with your sympathy and understanding, you are a traitor to Jesus Christ. You must have a right-standing relationship with Him yourself, and pour your life out in helping others in His way— not in a human way that ignores God.
Oswald Chambers
Sit and quiet yourself. Luxuriate in a certain memory and the details will come. Let the images flow. You'll be amazed at what will come out on paper. I'm still learning what it is about the past that I want to write. I don't worry about it. It will emerge. It will insist on being told.
Frank McCourt
So these things happen, deep in our lives. We do not speak of them. We hide them even from ourselves, but they do not leave us.
David Malouf
Never be afraid when God brings back your past. Let your memory have its way with you. It is a minister of God bringing its rebuke and sorrow to you.
Oswald Chambers
The memory is a muscle, the more you use it, the stronger it gets.
Taylor Mali
Begin with “I remember.” Write lots of small memories. If you fall into one large memory, write that. Just keep going. Don’t be concerned if the memory happened five seconds ago or five years ago.
Natalie Goldberg
Been dead, done that got a fricken t-shirt
P.C. Cast
The earth will support anything that supports life. What I have found after a soul retrieval is that one cannot "numb out" anymore. Each and every one of us must make personal and planetary decisions to stop abusing life. Whether a person a has to give up an abusive relationship, take a more active political role, or increase awareness of how we continue to abuse our environment, we all now have to be responsible. Being responsible means responding to what is needed. We find a need to wake up and change our reality to a stance of power...
Sandra Ingerman
Worship is giving God the best that He has given you. Be careful what you do with the best you have, Whenever you get a blessing from God, give it back to Him as a love gift. Take time to meditate before God and offer the blessing back to Him in a deliberate act of worship.
Oswald Chambers
[Writing about themselves] gives them wings, so that they can rise above the confounding maze of their lives and, from that perspective, begin to see the patterns and dead ends of their pasts, and a way out. That's the funny thing about mazes; what's baffling on the ground begins to make sense when you can begin to rise above it, the better to understand your history and fix yourself.
Wally Lamb
As my father talked, tears dripped down the side of his face like candle wax. The sight shocked me; until that moment, I had assumed men were as incapable of crying as they were of having babies.
Wally Lamb
Enemies are often former or potential friends who have been denied - or think that they have been denied - something.
Idries Shah
Harry loves slimy things, hairy things, and creepy things. Harry loves anything horrible. I know -- I'm his best friend Doug.
Suzy Kline
You pass people on the street, some are for you, some are not.
Robert Henri
An artist must have imagination. An artist who does not use his imagination is a mechanic.
Robert Henri
Because there is a word for perfection, people will always imagine that they know it.
Idries Shah
Upgrading one's imagination about what is possible is always a leap of faith.
Clay Shirky
Reality can be entered through the main door or it can be slipped into through a window, which is much more fun.
Gianni Rodari
We can't calm waves, but we can steer the ship.
Hayley Long
Make the difficult habitual, the habitual easy, and the easy beautiful.
Constantin S. Stanislavski
You know what 'Dolores' means? It's Latin, means sadness. Our Lady of Sorrow. Why are you so sad?
Wally Lamb
Here is a girl who is pretty in a quiet way. I bet she's had a very sad life.
Wally Lamb
In all his imaginings, he had never envisioned her crying. He knew that her son had died, but he'd never expected that her pain might be anything he could recognize, almost as though he believed that Negroes had their own special kind of grieving ritual, another language, something other than tears they used to express their sadness.
Bebe Moore Campbell
Granny was right,' I said. 'When you forgive someone it does make you stronger. It makes your heart bigger than your hate.
Jack Gantos
Procrastination is not Laziness", I tell him. "It is fear. Call it by its right name, and forgive yourself.
Julia Cameron
if the goddes can forgive her, can't we?""I think there's a big difference between forgiving her and makin her into something she wasn't just because she's dead
P.C. Cast
We watched, and he taught us like he did every day we were with him. He showed us how to forgive.
Rob Buyea
So maybe that’s what love means. Having the capacity to forgive the one who wronged you, no matter how deep the hurt was.
Wally Lamb
In Him we have . . . the forgiveness of sins . . . —Ephesians 1:7Beware of the pleasant view of the fatherhood of God: God is so kind and loving that of course He will forgive us. That thought, based solely on emotion, cannot be found anywhere in the New Testament. The only basis on which God can forgive us is the tremendous tragedy of the Cross of Christ. To base our forgiveness on any other ground is unconscious blasphemy. The only ground on which God can forgive our sin and reinstate us to His favor is through the Cross of Christ. There is no other way! Forgiveness, which is so easy for us to accept, cost the agony at Calvary. We should never take the forgiveness of sin, the gift of the Holy Spirit, and our sanctification in simple faith, and then forget the enormous cost to God that made all of this ours.Forgiveness is the divine miracle of grace. The cost to God was the Cross of Christ. To forgive sin, while remaining a holy God, this price had to be paid. Never accept a view of the fatherhood of God if it blots out the atonement. The revealed truth of God is that without the atonement He cannot forgive— He would contradict His nature if He did. The only way we can be forgiven is by being brought back to God through the atonement of the Cross. God’s forgiveness is possible only in the supernatural realm.Compared with the miracle of the forgiveness of sin, the experience of sanctification is small. Sanctification is simply the wonderful expression or evidence of the forgiveness of sins in a human life. But the thing that awakens the deepest fountain of gratitude in a human being is that God has forgiven his sin. Paul never got away from this. Once you realize all that it cost God to forgive you, you will be held as in a vise, constrained by the love of God.
Oswald Chambers
The proof that our relationship is right with God is that we do our best whether we feel inspired or not.
Oswald Chambers
I feel like our whole friendship was a lie. She's probably the only person I've ever really opened up to, and the whole time she was hiding stuff from me. I just don't feel like I can trust somebody like that.
Brendan Halpin
None should say : 'I can trust,' or 'I cannot trust' until he is a master of the option, of trusting or not trusting.
Idries Shah
The human being, whether he realises it or not, is trusting someone or something every moment of the day.
Idries Shah
He comes where He commands us to leave.
Oswald Chambers
Tell about the quality of light coming in through your window. Jump in and write. Don’t worry if it is night and your curtains are closed or you would rather write about the light up north—just write. Go for ten minutes, fifteen, a half hour.
Natalie Goldberg
When you are in the dark, listen, and God will give you a very precious message for someone else once you are back in the light.
Oswald Chambers
If you have time to be mindful, you have time to meditate.
Ajahn Chah
Inner Knowledge -- You want to become wise in one lesson: First become a real human being.
Idries Shah
Everything I do is kind of a lesson, even if I am the only person who learns it.
Taylor Mali