SO GOOD QUOTES

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  • We all have value. 

    We all contribute. We all give back—if not through paid work, then as part of the human ecosystem. 

    “All Parasites Have Value:” Why Valuing Those Who Don’t Work is Key to More Sustainable Work Practices for Those Who Do

  • “The ineloquent man was wiser than the wise.”

    —Saint John Chrysostom, On the Vanity of Riches
    HOMILY Two
    After Eutropios, having been found outside the church, was taken captive

  • Do not be this person, who does not have the grace of God. Do not be the person who embitters those around him, causing trouble in the community.

    Do not be the person by whom others become defiled, through a thought of judging someone, a thought of / anger, a thought of revenge, and so on. Do not be this character.

    —H.E. Metropolitan Youssef, How to Endure Injustice

  • The practical person does not spend his life in the past, but he learns a lesson from it and works for the present and the future, with all his might…

    —Pope Shenouda III, Words of Spiritual Benefit Vol. 1

  • If only we could go back and do something differently, perhaps we would feel differently right now. But perhaps not. If things unfolded differently, we may be suffering a different hurt, and wish for that to be different.

    On moving things forward
    Madeleine Dore

  • I’m convinced that there are a good many things in this life that we really can’t do anything about, but that God wants us to do something with.

    ―Elisabeth Elliot, Suffering Is Never for Nothing

  • That it is our duty to perform each task considered as worthy with the utmost enthusiasm is insured by the terrible caveat that performing Godly work in a careless manner curses it. But worry, or the many worries that trouble the heart and give it no peace, is a disease of fallen man, who under took to decide his own fate and who is tossed and turned on all sides. Worry disturbs our thoughts and does not even allow us to focus on the task at hand. I suggest, therefore, that you look into this and, if you find that such a worry occasionally overwhelms you, try to drive it out and do not give it any ground. Have enthusiasm for your work and, performing it with utmost care, expect success from God, dedicating the task itself to Him, no matter how small it is, and you will get rid of worry.

    Do this, and everyday occupations and tasks will not distract you from God.

    May the Lord help you!

    —St. Theophan the Recluse

  • “Sometimes it takes years to really grasp what has happened to your life.”

    —Wilma Rudolph

  • Frankl went on to say it wasn’t pleasure mankind was looking for, that men only sought pleasure when they couldn’t find meaning. If a man has no sense of meaning, Frankl argued, he will numb himself with pleasure.

    —Donald Miller, Scary Close: Dropping the Act and Finding True Intimacy

  • What if part of God’s message to the world was you? The true and real you?
    …
    The more fully we live into ourselves, the more impact we will have. Acting may get us the applause we want, but taking a risk on being ourselves is the only path toward true intimacy. And true intimacy, the exchange of affection between two people who are not lying, is transforming.

    —Donald Miller, Scary Close: Dropping the Act and Finding True Intimacy