Joel Asteen Quotes & Sayings

Instead of getting wound up, simply relax your expectations of your family, friends, business associates ... and yourself. — Bob Cox

I will offer thanks for someone who paid a price for offering compassion to me. I will place myself beneath the cross of another who needs my compassion. — Joyce Rupp

Recalling vividly the love scene I had just witnessed. How much I had been cheated! How much of what should be every woman's was not mine and — V.C. Andrews

There's sort of a persistent misperception that talking about race is black folk's burden. Ultimately, only men can end sexism, and only white people can end racism. — Benjamin Todd Jealous

Prayer is the superabundance of the heart. It is brim-full and running over with love and praise, as once it was with Mary, when the Word took root in her body. So too, our heart breaks out into a Magnificat. Now the Word has achieved its 'glorious course' (2 Thess. 3:1): it has gone out from God and been sown in the good soil of the heart. Having now been chewed over and assimilated, it is regenerated in the heart, to the praise of God. It has taken root in us and is now bearing its fruit: we in our turn utter the Word and send it back to God. We have become Word; we are prayer. — Andre Louf

I don't have hobbies; hobbies cost money. Interests are quite free. — George Carlin

You know that the air and water are being polluted, as is everything we touch and live with, and we go on corrupting the nature that we need. We don't realize we have a commitment to God to take care of nature. To cut down a tree, to waste water when there is so much lack of it, to let buses poison our atmosphere with those noxious fumes from their exhausts, to burn rubbish haphazardly-all that concerns our alliance with God. — Oscar Romero

Some humans are mathematicians-others aren't. — Jane Goodall

To expose our hearts to truth and consistently refuse or neglect to obey the impulses it arouses is to stymie the motions of life within us and, if persisted in, to grieve the Holy Spirit into silence. — A.W. Tozer

There is nothing safe about sex. There never will be. — Norman Mailer

Nature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf. — Terence McKenna

Those beautiful words we said to one another are hidden in the secret heart of heaven. One day, like the rain, they will pour our love story all over the world. — Jalaluddin Rumi

What takes more courage - doing what's normal and being miserable, or admitting what you need in order to be happy? — Susannah Sandlin

To undertake a genuine spiritual path is not to avoid difficulties but to learn the art of making mistakes wakefully, to bring them to the transformative power of our heart. — Jack Kornfield