Inspired By Words
I’m a quote guy. I love quotes. They inspire me. They make me think. They refocus me. They give me perspective.
Here are a few I’ve been thinking about lately. I hope you enjoy them. I hope they motivate you. Meditate on one or two of them each day.
Have a great week!
Ken
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“Before the truth sets you free, it tends
to make you miserable.”
Richard Rohr
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“Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It’s a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others. Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.” Pema Chödrön
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“Don't be afraid of your fears. They're not there to scare you. They're there to let you know
that something is worth it.”
C. JoyBell C.
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“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is
the courage to continue that counts.”
Winston S. Churchill
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“If we lose a generation of young people in the church, it won't be because we didn't entertain them, but because we didn't dare them to do something meaningful with the gospel in light of the world that we live in.” Shane Claiborne
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“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”
Virginia Woolf
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“God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.”
C.S. Lewis
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“Most of us were taught that God would love us if and when we change. In fact, God loves you so that you can change. What empowers change, what makes you desirous of change is the experience of love. It is that inherent experience of love that becomes the engine of change.”
Richard Rohr
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“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
Albert Einstein
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“Human history is the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which
will make him happy.”
C.S. Lewis
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“Do one thing every day that scares you.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
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“The universe will never ask you to get out of your boat when the waters are calm, the skies are blue and the shore clear. No, the universe will always ask you to step out when the waves are high, the sky violent and the shore unknown and unseen.”
Ken Burkey
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“Faith is not for overcoming obstacles; it is for experiencing them—all the way through!”
Richard Rohr
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“I believe, help my unbelief.”
St. Mark
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“Compassion asks us to go where it hurts, to enter into the places of pain, to share in brokenness, fear, confusion, and anguish. Compassion challenges us to cry out with those in misery, to mourn with those who are lonely, to weep with those in tears. Compassion requires us to be weak with the weak, vulnerable with the vulnerable, and powerless with the powerless. Compassion means full immersion
in the condition of being human.”
Henri J.M. Nouwen
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“Un-winged and naked, sorrow surrenders its crown
to a throne called grace.”
Aberjhani
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“We need to be angels for each other, to give each other strength and consolation. Because only when we fully realize that the cup of life is not only a cup of sorrow but also a cup of joy will we be able to drink it.” Henri J.M. Nouwen
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“If the only prayer you said was thank you,
that would be enough.”
Meister Eckhart