“But I actually knew a few true things: I had figured out that truth and freedom were pretty much the same. And that almost everyone was struggling to wake up, to be loved, and not feel so afraid all the time. That’s what the cars, degrees, booze, and drugs were about.”
–Anne Lamott, Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith
“You must always believe that God’s power to forgive is greater than your power to sin.”
–Brother Ugolino di Monte Santa Maria, The Little Flowers of St. Francis, quoted in Prayer, by Richard J. Foster, p. 151.
“Our greatest joy, no matter what our role, comes from creating.”
–Robert Quinn, interviewed by Dennis Sparks in “Change: It’s a Matter of Life or Slow Death,” Journal of Staff Development, 22 (4), Fall 2001, p. 51.
“Paul and Silas’s discipline of praying and praising not only broke their own chains, but it also broke the chains of every other inmate in the prison.”
–Karen Beck, quoted by Carole Kent in A New Kind of Normal, p. 98
“Rule #1: Aspire. Everything starts with the desire to be more than you are today.”
Keith Yamashita and Tara Bodden, “Designing for Cosmic Change,” Design Management Journal, Spring 2002, p. 66.
If, during my greatest suffering, I had doubted the existence of the divine, I could no longer.
That afternoon on the hill, I felt joy.
–Tim Madigan in I’m Proud of You.