Action Or Linking Quotes & Sayings

When our institutions lack movement to propel them forward, the Spirit, I believe, simply moves around them, like a current flowing around a rock in a stream...without that soul work that teaches us to open our deepest selves to God and ground our souls in love, no movement will succeed and no institution will stand...it is the linking of action and contemplation, great work and deep spirituality, that keeps goodness, rightness, beauty, and aliveness flowing...as Pope Francis has said, this moment calls for social poets: sincere and creative people who will rise on the wings of faith to catch the wind of the Spirit, the wind of justice, joy, and peace. (p. 180) — Brian McLaren

We now know that a neo-conservative is an arsonist who sets the house on fire and six years later boasts that no one can put it out. — Bill Moyers

You gave me back the paradise
That I thought I lost for good
You helped me find the reasons why
It took me by surprise that you understood
You knew all along
What I never wanted to say
Until I learned to love myself
I was never ever lovin' anybody else. — Madonna

If you take a particle down, past neutrinos, you get vortexes, little whirlpools of energy. This is amazing, because what it really means, is everything is the same. Everything is one of those, in various combinations. — Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki

At first, I thought the ring might be a fake, a lie. But it was real to me. When I was always waiting for you, while my heart was breaking, and as I was happy, the ring became real to me because of you. — Ji-Eun Song

Physicians are in general the most amiable companions and the best friends, as well as the most learned men I know. — Alexander Pope

Where did you find this?" Lakri asked Ingra smiled with no response it dawned on Lakri that his son knew what was going on — Charon Lloyd-Roberts

Then a dark shape would glide across the star-covered sky, everyone would look up and the laughter would stop. It wasn't exactly what you'd call fear, rather a strange sadness
a sadness that had nothing human about it any more, for it lacked both courage and hope. This was how animals waited to die. It was the way fish caught in a net watch the shadow of the fisherman moving back and forth above them. — Irene Nemirovsky

The person who figures out how to harness the collective genius of his or her organization is going to blow the competition away. — Walter Wriston

I can't altogether tell myself, Lillian. It's not wholly a matter of the calendar. It's the feeling that I've put a great deal behind me, where I can't go back to it again - and I don't really wish to go back. The way would be too long and too fatiguing. — Willa Cather

My dogs have been the reason I have woken up every single day of my life with a smile on my face. — Jennifer Skiff

The best style is the least noticeable. — Whit Burnett

The creative road is a tough one to follow. There are many bumps and detours we hit before arriving at the end of our journey — Tonesha Reese

I have no hang-ups. I don't have to go to psychiatrists. — Dan Lauria