Joyce Rupp Quotes

• I heard a wise saying once that has helped me: "Negative feelings are like stray cats. The more you feed them, the more they hang around.

  Joyce Rupp

  Wise, Cat, Feelings

  Joyce Rupp (2003). “The Star in My Heart: Experiencing Sophia, Inner Wisdom”, Sorin Books

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• God of peace,
  you are at the center of my life,
  a strong refuge of peace
  in the whirlwind of my pain.
  I look to you for strength
  and a constant assurance of hope.

  Joyce Rupp

  Strong, Pain, Looks

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• Hope is not just one single quality or promise. Hope has to do with believing beyond today— knowing there’s a garden of beauty that awaits me.

  Joyce Rupp

  Believe, Garden, Knowing

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• Rabindranath Tagore writes that the song he wanted to sing has never happened because he spent his days "stringing and unstringing" his instrument. Whenever I read these lines a certain sadness enters my soul. I get so preoccupied with the details and pressure of my schedule, with the hurry and worry of life, that I miss the song of goodness which is waiting to be sung through me.

  Joyce Rupp

  Song, Writing, Sadness

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• People gain so much hope when they know they are not experiencing something alone.

  Joyce Rupp

  People, Experiencing Something, Gains

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• if I wait to be perfect before I love myself I will always be unsatisfied and ungrateful if I wait until all the flaws, chips, and cracks disappear I will be the cup that stands on the shelf and is never used

  Joyce Rupp

  Perfect, Ungrateful, Waiting

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• No matter how much light I carry within me, there will always be times of feeling lost, being confused, seeking direction. It is the way of the human heart.

  Joyce Rupp

  Confused, Heart, Light

  Joyce Rupp (2003). “The Star in My Heart: Experiencing Sophia, Inner Wisdom”, Sorin Books

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• I will offer thanks for someone who paid a price for offering compassion to me. I will place myself beneath the cross of another who needs my compassion.

  Joyce Rupp

  Compassion, Offering, Needs

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• Like an ethereal presence
  You hang out everywhere.
  Not a naughty or scary goblin,
  Rather, an inquisitive observer,
  A concerned, caring custodian,
  Visiting every niche and closet
  Where we stuff the undesired
  Of our messy, blemished lives,
  You haunt territories we ignore,
  Hoping we will find you there.

  Joyce Rupp

  Caring, Naughty, Scary

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• Drink more water and walk in a relaxed manner.

  Joyce Rupp

  Water, Drink, Walks

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• By the light of your stars, heal me.

  Joyce Rupp

  Stars, Light, Heal

  Joyce Rupp (2003). “The Star in My Heart: Experiencing Sophia, Inner Wisdom”, Sorin Books

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