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“Heaven. Now there’s a thought. Nothing has ever been able, ultimately, to convince me we live anywhere else. And that heaven, more a verb than a noun, more a condition than a place, is about leading with the heart in whatever broken or ragged state it’s in, stumbling forward in faith until, from time to time, we miraculously find our way.”
― We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For: Light in a Time of Darkness
― We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For: Light in a Time of Darkness
“Believing this, as I do, there is no resistance to the idea that what is foreign can be known. Can be understood. Can be held in the embrace of a love that is in fact the same Love that holds the Universe. Given this Earth on which we live and grow, given its beauty and generosity, its majesty and comfort, how can one doubt that one is loved? That in fact there is an abundance, not a scarcity of love? It is all anyone ever wants, really, I believe, and it is all around us while we starve.”
― We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For: Light in a Time of Darkness
― We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For: Light in a Time of Darkness
“...continuing to love with depth and tenderness honors revolution at its highest success.”
― We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For: Light in a Time of Darkness
― We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For: Light in a Time of Darkness
“The world is filled with discouraged, downtrodden individuals who could make their situations better by simply choosing to continue on in hope. Once we learn the power of hope and practice it, it is a hard habit to break. Just as a person can form a habit of being discouraged each time things don’t go her way, she can learn to encourage herself through hoping that a blessing is right around the corner.
What we say in difficult times determines how long the difficulty will last and how intense the difficulty will become. I am certainly not saying that we can control everything that happens to us by choosing right words to speak, but we can control how we respond to the things that happen to us, and choosing right thoughts and words helps us do that.”
― Living Beyond Your Feelings: Controlling Emotions So They Don't Control You
What we say in difficult times determines how long the difficulty will last and how intense the difficulty will become. I am certainly not saying that we can control everything that happens to us by choosing right words to speak, but we can control how we respond to the things that happen to us, and choosing right thoughts and words helps us do that.”
― Living Beyond Your Feelings: Controlling Emotions So They Don't Control You
“There is only waiting, attention, silence, immobility, constant through suffering and joy... We cannot take a single step towards heaven. It is not in our power to travel in a vertical direction. If however we look heavenwards for a long time, God comes and takes us up. He raises us easily. As Aeschylus says: "There is no effort in what is divine." There is an easiness in salvation which is more difficult for us than all of our efforts.”
― Waiting for God
― Waiting for God
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