Favorite Quotes

“At any moment, you have the power to say, ‘this is not how the story is going to end.’” – Christine Mason Miller

“There are two ways of spreading the light; to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.” – Edith Wharton

“At death we leave behind the radiance of our lives” – Zenju Erthlyn Manuel

“What has my attention, is shaping my life.” – Brandie Freely

“Rise again and choose love with fierce determination each and every time.” – Sr. Lynette Davis

“Your life is a journey of learning to love yourself first, and then extending that love to others in every encounter.” – Gabrielle Orr

“Our first task is to become attentive to the desire of the soul, and then to place ourselves in it’s service.” – M. Jacqui Alexander

“strength, courage, and wisdom are inside of me, all along” – India Aire

“I refuse to accept the view that humankind is so tragically bound to the starless night of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality . . . I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.” – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

“We need angelic trouble makers.” – Bayard Rustin

“There is mercy enough, there is grace enough, there is love enough, for all of us.” – The Many

“The longer I live, the more deeply I learn that love – whether we call it friendship or family or romance – is the work of mirroring and magnifying each other’s light. Gentle work. Steadfast work. Life-saving work in those moments when life and shame and sorrow occlude our own light from our view, but there is still a clear-eyed loving person to beam it back. In our best moments, we are that person for each other.” – James Baldwin

“At the end of the day, I have to be accountable to what I am called to, not to how I’ve been told to behave by people who are most advantaged by maintaining the status quo.” – rev. angel kyoto williams

“This us the true joy in life: to be used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one. To be thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap. The being a force of Nature, instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.” – George Bernard Shaw

“I think God is on Earth, inside every living being. What we call ‘the divine’ is none other than the energy of awakening, of peace, of understanding, and of love, which is to be found not only in every human being, but in every species on Earth. – Thich Nhat Hanh

“And every day, the world will drag you by the hand yelling ‘This is important! And This is important! And This is important! You need to worry about This! And This! and This!’ And each day, it’s up to you to yank your hand back, put it on your heart and say, ‘No. This is what’s important.’” – Iain Thomas

“Tell me, what it is that you plan to do with your wild and precious life? – Mary Oliver

“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Love is going to revolutionize our world more than any other concept that we have worked with in the past, because it is going to give human beings a kind of inner truth that nothing can divert us from.” – Orlando Bishop

“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” – Lao Tzu

“You’ve got to come out of the miserable doing universe into the immeasurable house of being.” – e. e. cummings

“Happiness is a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you,” – Nathaniel Hawthorne

“We can make our minds so like still water that beings gather about us, that they may see their own images, and so live for a moment with a fiercer life because of our quiet.” – William Butler Yeats

“I wake up in the morning unsure of whether I want to savor the world or save the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.” – E. B. White

“To see the world in a grain of sand, and heaven in a wildflower. To hold infinity in the palm of your hand, and eternity in an hour.” – William Blake

“There is a surface level of reality and a deeper level; the level of perfect peace, wonder, and surprise. This deeper level can be touched now, not only at some later opportune moment. The surface swirls with events, circumstances, problems, worries. It’s tasks seem impossible and overwhelming. In the deeps, something else is taking place.” – N. Gordon Crosby

“You can blame people who knock over things in the dark, or you can begin to light candles.” – Steven Hawkings

“Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.” – Aristotle

“Growing old with someone is beautiful, but growing old by being true to yourself is Divine.” – Dodinsky

“Wake up from your slumbers. Shake the dust from your souls. Put on the beautiful garment of salvation, and shine in the brightness of renewed hope. For the light has come and the glory of the Lord is risen.” – Daniel Peterson, 1854

“If God ever spoke, He is still speaking. If He has ever been in mutual and reciprocal communication with the persons He has made, He is still a communicating God as eager as ever to have listening and receptive souls. . . . . He is the Great I Am, not a Great He Was.” – Rufus M. Jones

“American capitalism with either 1) seduce you with something for nothing, rags to riches, the american dream, or 2) induce you to comply with racism and white supremacy by enticing you with ‘a job’, or 3) reduce you to someone who doesn’t count.” – Rev. angel kyoto williams

“Gradually I realized that the most powerful ministry is a wordless radiation of the Love of God. As I began to experience this secret, undramatic, invisible ministry flowing out from me, I realized that my sometimes dramatic gifts in the ministry had depended all along on the secret, silent ministry of a woman here or a man there who never spoke in meeting. With humility I came to understand how their ministry of being deeply present to God and then radiating the Love of Jesus Christ is the most important ministry of all, for it helps everyone in the meeting to come into a state of living communion and transformation. Words are important of course – they can be a matter of life and death – but they are only words. What really counts is the powerful transformation of human character which can occur in a meeting deeply gathered into the body of Christ.” – Bill Taber

“There are only four questions of value in life – What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for? and What is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.” Don Juan DeMarco

“Miracles fall like drops of healing rain from Heaven on a dry and dusty world, where starved and thirsty creatures come to die. ²Now they have water. ³Now the world is green. ⁴And everywhere the signs of life spring up, to show that what is born can never die, for what has life has immortality.” – A Course In Miracles, (W-pII.13.5:1-4)

“There is a silence into which the world cannot intrude. There is an ancient peace you carry in your heart and have not lost. There is a sense of holiness in you the thought of sin has never touched. All this today you will remember.” – A Course In Miracles, Lesson 164