Giving Quotes - Page 166

You can only inspire when you give people a new way of looking at the world in which they live.

Whatsoever God takes away from His children, He either replaces it with a much greater favor or else gives strength to bear it.

I don't give a damn about the civilians.

The human psyche has two great sicknesses: the urge to carry vendetta across generations, and the tendency to fasten group labels on people rather than see them as individuals. Abrahamic religion gives strong sanction to both-and mixes explosively with both. Only the willfully blind could fail to implicate the divisive force of religion in most, if not all, of the violent enmities in the world today.

I was always willing to take a great deal of the burden of getting along in life on my own shoulders, but I wasn't willing to give myself a pat on the back. I was always looking to somebody else to give me that. .. That was all wrong.

In the God of all creation, we put our faith and trust. And give our lives to you, cause you gave your life for us.

I always forgive, but I never forget.

The most exquisite paradox; as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all.

For each new morning with its light, For rest and shelter of the night, For health and food, for love and friends, For everything Thy goodness sends.

I have seen the sun break through to illuminate a small field for a while, and gone my way and forgotten it. But that was the pearl of great price, the one field that had treasure in it. I realize now that I must give all that I have to possess it. Life is not hurrying on to a receeding future, nor hankering after an imagined past. It is the turning aside like Moses to the miracle of the lit bush, to a brightness that seemed as transitory as your youth once, but is the eternity that awaits you.

... I'm much closer to the people at the bottom than the people at the top, and the latter won't forgive me for it.

The great biblical tradition enjoins on all peoples the duty to hear the voice of the poor. It bids us break the bonds of injustice and oppression which give rise to glaring, and indeed scandalous, social inequalities.

The Holy Spirit transforms and renews us, creates harmony and unity, and gives us courage and joy for mission.

Something similar happens on the other side of the equation: Giving kindness does us as much good as receiving it. . . . The true benefit of kindness is being kind. Perhaps more than any other factor, kindness gives meaning and value to our life, raises us above our troubles and our battles, and makes us feel good about ourselves.

I cannot here avoid giving my most decided sufferage in favour of the moral qualities of maniacs. I have no where met, excepting in romances, with fonder husbands, more affectionate parents, more impassioned . . . than in the lunatic asylum, during their intervals of calmness and reason.

Give yourself freedom to try out new things Don't be so set in your ways that you can't grow.

I think about never losing my voice, never giving in, never selling out, always keeping black, always sticking to the street. Staying neighborhood and not Hollywood.

First and foremost, I just want to give a huge thanks to the fans who have been behind me.

So if diva means giving your best, then yes, I guess I am a diva.

We can never get a re-creation of community and heal our society without giving our citizens a sense of belonging.

I don't even have a moment where I felt like I wanted to give up

Good Viking genes, being vegetarian and having rowdy dogs and kids definitely keep me in shape. Not eating meat gives me the energy I need to keep up with work, family and travel - I'm very active.

I am the poet of the poor, because I was poor when I loved; since I could not give gifts, I gave words.

The individual's life is of importance to none besides himself: the point is whether he wishes to escape from history or give his life for it. History recks nothing of human logic

When you have done everything that you can do, surrender. Give yourself up to the power and energy that's greater than yourself.