Lent Days Bible Quotes & Sayings

What the mind don't 'member, the heart still know. Love, the strongest thang of all. Stronger than all the rest. — Lisa Wingate

Associated with this inner conflict is a tendency to become hypercritical: unhappy souls almost always blame everyone but themselves for their miseries. Shut up within themselves, they are necessarily shut off from all others except to criticize them. Since the essence of sin is opposition to God's will, it follows that the sin of one individual is bound to oppose any other individual whose will is in harmony with God's will. This resulting estrangement from one's fellow man is intensified when one begins to live solely for this world, then the possessions of the neighbor are regarded as something unjustly taken from oneself. Once the material becomes the goal of life, a society of conflicts is born. — Fulton J. Sheen

Physical contact is a human necessity. — David Byrne

Epictetus, the pagan philosopher, proved in his life the truth of his own words - "A man can be happy without wealth, without family, without office or honor, without health, without anything that the world seeks after. — Orison Swett Marden

I am left standing breathless and wondering who he is. I touch my fingers to my lips and lick them, tasting the fire he left behind. — J.L. Leslie

You need to dream a bigger dream for yourself. That is the lesson. Hold the highest vision possible for your life and it can come true. — Oprah Winfrey

Thirty spokes share the hub of a wheel;
yet it is its center that makes it useful.
You can mould clay into a vessel;
yet, it is its emptiness that makes it useful.
Cut doors and windows from the walls of a house;
but the ultimate use of the house
will depend on that part where nothing exists.
Therefore, something is shaped into what is;
but its usefulness comes from what is not. — Lao-Tzu

We know that giving someone ideas as to what
they 'should' do and how they should 'change' to be
more effective, often has the opposite effect — Richard Boyatzis

Today I offer a prayer of forgiveness:
forgive the pettiness of my ingratitude ...
the absence of profound thankfulness. — Mary Anne Radmacher