Category Quotes
Self Love. March is here, and in my mind, spring is here. Ash Wednesday is this week, the lenten season is upon us, and all of a sudden easter will arrive – resurrection, new life, new birth. I was reflecting… Continue Reading →
On Preaching by Frederick Buechner “There is perhaps no better proof for the existence of God than the way year after year he survives the way his professional friends promote him. If there are people who remain unconvinced, let them… Continue Reading →
Walking Home “We’re all just walking each other home.” Ram Daas. What a beautiful and profound quote. And what a wonderful spiritial reminder and perspective giver. This world is not our home. But often we think it is. We put… Continue Reading →
Your Light Matters. “Your task doesn’t matter, your light does.” Caroline Myss It doesn’t matter what you do. How menial or small the task. What matters is the intention that it’s done with. Through whatever we do, do we intend,… Continue Reading →
Revolutionary Happiness. “The most revolutionary act one can commit in this world is to be happy.” Patch Adams Change me O God into one who constantly chooses to be happy. For joy is who I really am in you. But… Continue Reading →
Ruin and Hope. “Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.” Rumi I’m so struck by this quote. It’s about resiliency. I have often felt ruined. Ruined by what’s happening in my world. Ruined by my thoughts, my… Continue Reading →
To be Relieved of God. It’s not about being relieved of the true God, but of the false God. The God we make up in our minds. It’s about overcoming our distorted and false images of God. For we have… Continue Reading →
The Ride of Life. “Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up,… Continue Reading →
Humor isn’t for everyone?! “I realize that humor isn’t for everyone. It’s only for people who want to have fun, enjoy life, and feel alive.” Anne Wilson Schaef. Walking through a shop in Saugatak Michigan. My wife saw a card and… Continue Reading →
Becoming myself. “Now, with God’s help, I shall become myself.” Soren Keirkegaard Perhaps we think that we have to become like someone else, or be someone else in order to be accepted or approved. Sometimes we don’t like ourselves very… Continue Reading →
Seeing with the Heart. “What is essential is invisible to the eye. Only with the heart can one see rightly.” Antoine de Saint Exupery A Prayer: Change me O God to get in touch with my heart, to know my… Continue Reading →
“All shall be well. For there is a force of love moving through the universe that holds us fast and will never let us go.” Julian of Norwich Beautiful words by a mystic from the 14th century. In other words… Continue Reading →
“My heart is at ease knowing that what was meant for me will never miss me, and that what misses me was never meant for me.” Sufi Prayer This beautiful prayer reminds me of Proverbs 3:5-6 “Trust in the Lord… Continue Reading →
Just Coincidence? “Coincidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous.” Albert Einstein The more I trust God, the more coincidences, synchronicities, serendipities and divine surprises seem to happen in my life. Things that I never could plan or imagine or figure… Continue Reading →
Lighten Up. “Life is too important to be taken seriously.” Oscar Wilde Change me O God, into one who doesn’t take life so seriously. Help me to become like a little child who plays, laughs and enjoys this adventure of… Continue Reading →
To Be Ourselves. “May we free ourselves, from ourselves so that we can be ourselves.” Rabbi Brian This week I met Rabbi Brian online through a quirky, divine, surprise syncrhoncity. As we talked he shared this quote off the top… Continue Reading →
“How long will grown men and women in this world keep drawing in their coloring books an image of God that makes them sad?” MEISTER ECKHART
“The good life starts only when you stop wanting a better one.” Bertrand Russell I stumbled upon this quote this week that “hit me like a ton of bricks”. I live a lot of my life in the future. In… Continue Reading →
Soul Identity: “You don’t have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.” – George MacDonald
We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.” Anaïs Nin (Also attributed to Talmud, Immanuel Kant, G. T. W. Patrick, H. M. Tomlinson and Steven Covey.) So if I am… angry fearful confused scared unloving… Continue Reading →
“Love cures people – both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.” Karl Menninger
“And we are put on this earth a little space that we may learn to bear the beams of love.” – WILLIAM BLAKE
“In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.” – ALBERT CAMUS Dear God, may this be true for all who struggle, anytime of the year, with low grade depression or situational despair. Could it… Continue Reading →
“Bidden or unbidden, God is present.” – CARL JUNG Some say Desiderius Erasmus said this or perhaps Carl Jung popularized it. But whoever coined it first – I love the eternal truth of it. and it’s even fun to say… Continue Reading →
“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” – RUMI
“If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.” – MEISTER ECKHART
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” – OSCAR WILDE
“When I have a terrible need of – shall I say the word – religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.” – VINCENT VAN GOGH
“In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” – ABRAHAM LINCOLN
“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.” – TEILHARD DE CHARDIN We all suffer from spiritual amnesia at times – forgetting who we are. This is a quote that helps… Continue Reading →
“Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.” – SOREN KEIRKEGAARD So often I live “unconsciously” and just go through my “plan and ordinary” days facing and dealing with problems and getting so caught… Continue Reading →
“It is not the length of life, but depth of life.” – RALPH WALDO EMMERSON Live deeply! Yes, yes, yes! To live deeply for as long as I can! Thank you Ralph! And God,, may it be so.
“You must give up the life you planned in order to have the life that is waiting for you.” – JOSEPH CAMPBELL I don’t know exactly where my life is headed right now or even for the past couple of… Continue Reading →