Our Lives Quotes - Page 38

• Art is to make our lives richer and fuller.

  Henry Moore

  Art, Art Is

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• Really living like Christ will not mean reward, social recognition, and an assured income, but difficulties, discrimination, solitude, anxiety. Here, too, the basic experience of the cross applies: the wider we open our hearts to others, the more audibly we intervene against the injustice that rules over us, the more difficult our lives in the rich unjust society will become.

  Dorothee Solle

  Heart, Mean, Unjust Society

  Dorothee Sölle (1990). “Thinking about God: an introduction to theology”, Trinity Pr Intl

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• For who will testify, who will accurately describe our lives if we do not do it ourselves?

  Faye Moskowitz

  Ifs

  Faye Moskowitz (2011). “And the Bridge Is Love”, p.32, The Feminist Press at CUNY

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• Bitterness grows in us when we fail to see the trouble and pain in our lives from God's point of view, and when our expectations of what life should be diverge from the reality of what life really is.

  Nancy Leigh DeMoss

  Pain, Reality, Views

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• Nothing else but seeing God in everything can make us loving and patient with those who annoy us. When we realize that they are only the instruments for accomplishing His purpose in our lives, we will actually be able to thank them [inwardly] for the blessings they bring us.

  Hannah Whitall Smith

  Blessing, Purpose, Able

  Catherine Jackson, Hannah Whitall Smith (1979). “The Christian's secret of a happy life for today: a paraphrase of Hannah Whitall Smith's classic”, Fleming H. Revell Company

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• From our limited vantage point, our lives are marked by an endless series of contingencies. We frequently find ourselves, instead of acting as we planned, reacting to an unexpected turn of events. We make plans but are often forced to change those plans. But there are no contingencies with God. Our unexpected, forced change of plans is a part of His plan. God is never surprised; never caught off guard; never frustrated by unexpected developments. God does as He pleases and that which pleases Him is always for His glory and our good.

  Jerry Bridges

  Frustrated, Acting, Events

  Jerry Bridges (2016). “Trusting God”, p.47, NavPress

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• Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark. In effect, the people who change our lives the most begin to sing to us while we are still in darkness. If we listen to their song, we will see the dawning of a new part of ourselves.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Song, Dark, Light

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• Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. Our hope for creative living lies in our ability to reestablish the spiritual needs of our lives in personal character and social justice. Without this spiritual and moral reawakening we shall destroy ourselves in the misuse of our own instruments.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Spiritual, Lying, Character

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• When we live our lives authentically, we discover our true place in the world for the first time.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Firsts, World, First Time

  Sarah Ban Breathnach (2012). “Simple Abundance”, Random House

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• Love loves for ever,
  And finds a sort of joy in pain,
  And gives with nought to take again,
  And loves too well to end in vain:
  Is the gain small then?
  Love laughs at "never",
  Outlives our life, exceeds the span
  Appointed to mere mortal man:
  All which love is and does and can
  Is all in all then.

  Christina Rossetti

  Pain, Love Is, Men

  Christina Rossetti (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Christina Rossetti (Illustrated)”, p.648, Delphi Classics

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• Our life is a loan received from death with sleep as the daily interest on this loan.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Sleep, Life Is, Loan

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2004). “On the Suffering of the World”, p.47, Penguin UK

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• On the pilgrim's path each man must become Moses, going on a vision quest to some mountaintop and returning with the ten or twenty commandments that he holds sacred. So long as we obey or break the rules that have been set up for us by the Giants - Parents and other Authorities - we remain good or bad children. Growing into the fullness of our humanity means that we become co-authors of the rules by which we will agree to have our lives judged.

  Sam Keen

  Children, Mean, Men

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• To accept Christ is to know the meaning of the words 'as he is, so are we in this world.' We accept his friends as our friends, his enemies as our enemies, his ways as our ways, his rejection as our rejection, his cross as our cross, his life as our life and his future as our future. If this is what we mean when we advise the seeker to accept Christ, we had better explain it to him. He may get into deep spiritual trouble unless we do.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Spiritual, Mean, Rejection

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• It's not the troubles we run into, it's what we do about them which determines their net effect upon our lives ... by the very act of trying, our spirit is making progress.

  Nick Baylis

  Running, Progress, Trying

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• That goodness is what survives death, a fundamental goodness that is in each and every one of us. The whole of our life is a teaching of how to uncover that strong goodness, and a training toward realizing it.

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Strong, Teaching, Training

  Sogyal Rinpoche (2009). “The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying: The Spiritual Classic & International Bestseller: Revised and Updated Edition”, p.40, Harper Collins

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• We do, then, most solemnly before God and the world declare that regardless of every consequence, at the risk of every distress, the arms we have been compelled to assume we will use with perseverance, exerting to their utmost energies all those powers which our Creator hath given us to preserve that liberty which he committed to us in sacred deposit and to protect from every hostile hand our lives and our properties.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Perseverance, Hands, Risk

  Thomas Jefferson, Andrew M. Allison (1983). “The Real Thomas Jefferson”, Natl Center for Constitutional

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• The setting of a great hope is like the setting of the sun. The brightness of our life is gone. Shadows of evening fall around us, and the world seems but a dim reflection - itself a broader shadow. We look forward into the coming lonely night. The soul withdraws into itself. Then stars arise, and the night is holy.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Lonely, Stars, Fall

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.1849, Delphi Classics

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• Many of us think of salespeople as people travelling around with sample kits. Instead, we are all salesman, every day of our lives.

  Charles M. Schwab

  Thinking, People, Sample

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• Well, I do write on political and social issues and the idea that one shouldn't - or the idea that we should censor ourselves - doesn't really work for me because it would be doing the government's job for them. And I'm not interested in doing that. I think what we need very much in Pakistan is to be able to discuss the corruption and the violence that really colours most of our life here.

  Fatima Bhutto

  Jobs, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• My brother and I grew up in a musical family. We have an older sister who sings and plays the piano. Our dad is a musician. Music was always a part of our lives.

  Laura Allen

  Brother, Dad, Play

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• Sometimes when we are afraid to confess an area of brokenness or sin in our lives, we know the changes we need to make.

  Anne Marie Miller

  Needs, Sometimes, Sin

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• What we see on the TV screen, or the film screen or what we listen to in music, we have an illusion of what Prince Charming looks like or Cinderella's gonna look like in our life and we forget about what true love really means.

  Shari Wiedmann

  Mean, Looks, Tvs

  "Actress Shari Rigby talks about her “Beautifully Flawed” life". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com. March 2015.

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• We must be able to appreciate and enjoy the places where we tarry and yet pass on without anguish when we are called elsewhere. In our spiritual development we are often required to pull up roots many times and to close many chapters in our lives until we are no longer attached to any material thing and can love all people without any attachment to them.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Spiritual, Attachment, Roots

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.19, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• The heaviest of burdens is simultaneously an image of life's most intense fullfillment. The heavier the burden, the closer our lives come to the earth, the more real and truthful they become. Conversely, the absolute absence of a burden causes man to be lighter than air, to soar into new heights, take leave of the earth and his earthly being, and become only half real, his movements as free as they are insignificant. What then shall we choose? Weight or lightness?

  Milan Kundera

  Real, Men, Air

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• To give up responsibility for our lives is not healthy.

  Michael Crichton

  Giving Up, Responsibility, Healthy

  Michael Crichton (2012). “Travels”, p.95, Vintage

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