Ched Quotes & Sayings

I am overwhelmed by the beautiful disorder of poetry, the eternal virginity of words. — Theodore Roethke

What is unbelief but the despair, dictated by the dominant powers, that nothing can really change? — Ched Myers

Use the light that is in you to recover your natural clearness of sight — Laozi

The mind is very powerful. Therefore, it requires firm guidance. A powerful jet plane needs a good pilot; the pilot of your mind should be the wisdom that understands its nature. — Thubten Yeshe

As it is he hears voices without form; they sing and sing, as they have from the beginning and will continue until the end. Chad borrows their melodies: That's the music part of the songs he wrotes.For words Ched uses rhymes from our village, the kind that nobody pays attention to anymore because they advocate living by a code that will surely make you one of life's losers. — Helen Oyeyemi

The ego is exploitation; love is service. And the service that flows from love, freely and spontaneously, is non-violence. — Rajneesh

Is not prayer the intensely personal struggle within each disciple, and among us collectively, to resist the despair and distractions that cause us to practice unbelief, to abandon or avoid the way of Jesus? — Ched Myers

We can choose to humble ourselves by conquering enmity toward our brothers and sisters, esteeming them as ourselves, and lifting them as high as or higher than we are. — Ezra Taft Benson

If our theology does not quicken the conscience and soften the heart, it actually hardens both. — J.I. Packer

What is important is seldom urgent and what is urgent is seldom important. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

Investing and connecting are the key factors in turning any intention into reality. — Rhonda Britten

There was one of his lonelinesses coming, one of those times when he walked the streets or sat, aimless and depressed, biting a pencil at his desk. It was a self-absorption with no comfort, a demand for expression with no outlet, a sense of time rushing by, ceaselessly and wastefully - assuaged only by that conviction that there was nothing to waste, because all efforts and attainments were equally valueless. — F Scott Fitzgerald

You don't even need a computer plugged into the back of your head to be hopelessly dependent on the system. — Russell Eric Dobda

What is the meaning of Resurrection? ... is it not the exorcism of crippling unbelief, which renders us dead in life (Mark 9:22) rather than alive in our dying (8:35)? — Ched Myers

To pray is to learn to believe in in a transformation of self and world, which seems, empirically, impossible. — Ched Myers