“God has no other hands than ours.”
— Dorothee Solle
“One act of beneficence, one act of real usefulness, is worth all the abstract sentiment in the world.”
— Ann Radcliffe
“Past the seeker as he prayed came the crippled and the beggar and the beaten. And seeing them… he cried, ‘Great God, how is it that a loving creator can see such things and yet do nothing about them?’… God said, ‘I did do something. I made you.'”
— Sufi Teaching
“To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it — this is a hard lesson.”
— Bruce Catton
“The future is always beginning now.”
— Mark Strand
“Spiritual exercises are a way to access the goodness that is God. Chanting the tones (HU, Ani-Hu, or your initiation tone) is like calling your dog. If your dog’s name is Charlie and you call him Henry, he may not come. If you want to access God, you keep calling God’s name. You want to get God’s awareness on you; it’s all you’re after.”
— John-Roger
“Every achiever that I have ever met says, ‘My life turned around when I began to believe in me’.”
-– Dr. Robert Schuller
“All of your past experience lays the groundwork for your present reality. Now lay the best ground work possible for the present moment that lies in your future, with the practice of gratitude, appreciation and optimism.”
— William DeFoore