Inspiration Quotes - Page 205

Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.

Probably no greater honor can come to any man than the respect of his colleagues.

Commitment. This is my favorite word because in some way, people who are committed are always much more interesting and much more reliable, and much more, I would say, deep than people who are not.

For better to come, good must stand aside.

People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls.

Lust is a poor, weak, whimpering, whispering thing compared with that richness and energy of desire which will arise when lust has been killed.

The will of God will not take us where the grace of God cannot sustain us.

True intimacy with God always brings humility.

Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble.

The Creator wants us to drum. He wants us to corrupt the world with drum, dance and chants. After all, we have already corrupted the world with power and greed....which hasn't gotten us anywhere - now's the time to corrupt the world with drum, dance and chants.

Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.

People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.

A human being is part of a whole called by us the universe.

Everyone has two choices. We're either full of love... or full of fear.

Teach the children so it will not be necessary to teach the adults.

A wee child toddling in a wonder world, I prefer to their dogma my excursions into the natural gardens where the voice of the Great Spirit is heard in the twittering of birds, the rippling of mighty waters, and the sweet breathing of flowers. If this is Paganism, then at present, at least, I am a Pagan.

You are a success when you have made friends with your past, are focused on the present, and are optimistic about your future

It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What is tough, is being good every day.

Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear.

The greatest missionary is the Bible in the mother tongue. It needs no furlough and is never considered a foreigner.

When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them as if their reason had left them. When it has left a place where we have always found it, it is like shipwreck; we drop from security into something malevolent and bottomless.

We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.

Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.

Arrange whatever pieces come your way.

I am rooted, but I flow.