Schori Quotes & Sayings

I think Easter is most profoundly about meaning, not mechanism. — Katharine Jefferts Schori

But for us to assume that God could not act in other ways is, I think, to put God in an awfully small box. — Katharine Jefferts Schori

Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of. — Orson Welles

When you drink in nature through your senses, you deepen your awareness of the great silent intelligence flowing through all things. You nourish your mind, body, and spirit as you connect to the divine love of Being. — Deepak Chopra

Even the smallest shots of positivity can give someone a serious competitive edge. Two — Shawn Achor

And yet the Nobel Prizes, in singling out individuals, have done a great deal of good in pointing up to the world as a whole and setting forth clearly goals for achievement. — Willard Libby

See the encounters of Jesus life as windows into possibilities for yours. Accept the invitation to go or strive to go through the narrow door. Choose between life and fear, for the unengaged life is truly not worth living, and has no possibility of salvation or abundance. — Katharine Jefferts Schori

Power, as human beings exercise power, to me means the ability to change: the ability to change oneself, the ability to change one's community. And the positive use of power is transformation of self and community toward a higher ideal, toward a healed world. — Katharine Jefferts Schori

I am a lay historian by nature. I seek out an empirical reflection of what truth is. I sort of want dates and motivations and I want the whole story. But I've always felt, unconsciously, that all human history is that connection from person to person to person, event to event to event, and from idea to idea. — Tom Hanks

Come awake, Tom. Fathers can willfully hurt their children. They can be addicts too weak to give up their vices, no matter the pain it causes. Mothers can turn you invisible with neglect. They can erase you with a denial, a refusal to see. Friends can deceive you. People lie. It is a cold, hard world. I do not blame Nell Hawkins for retreating from it into a madness of her own choosing. — Libba Bray

There can be a lot of pressure on girls to dress the way they wouldn't normally dress: on social media, at school, among friends. — Bindi Irwin

The fool who traveled is better off than the wise man who stayed home. — Rashi

I have never known more than fifteen minutes of anxiety or fear. Whenever I feel fearful emotions overtaking me, I just close my eyes and thank God that He is still on the throne reigning over everything and I take comfort in His control over the affairs of my life. — John Wesley

I certainly very much enjoy acting, but I am open to anything really. I think it's important when you have those moments in life when you are not attached to something, and you are not quite sure what the next phase of your journey is going to look like, that you don't pigeon-hole yourself. — James Scott

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I'd grown up as a tomboy and had this "everything you can do, I can do better" kind of attitude. — Emily Spivack