In the Love yourself step, recognize the core value of the person who offended you. He/she is far more complicated, complex, and humane than whatever he or she did to you. Appreciating the complexity of other people reinforces your own value….
Feel compassion, not for the behavior, but for the hurt.
— Steven Stosny, You Don’t Have to Take It Anymore, p. 206
Books are for use.
Every book its reader.
Every reader his book.
Save the time of the reader.
The library is a growing organism.
— Quoted by Michael Gorman in Our Singular Strengths: Meditations for Librarians
The heart expands not by taking more in, but by giving more away.
We can be generous people because we have been given generous gifts.
We’re greedy because we think there’s a limited supply.
There is an unlimited supply of the things our hearts really long for.
Live with expanding hearts.
— Pastor Ed Allen, December 2, 2007
Here I am moving from point A to point B to point C — in a fog. I turn to God and say, “How do I get to point D?” But God gently replies, “Take my hand and I will lead you out of the fog.” Then I get stubborn and say, “You didn’t answer my question!”
— Hugh Prather, Spiritual Notes to Myself, p. 10
God speaks to us in a thousand voices, each with the same clear message: “I love you. Please trust me on this one.”
— Hugh Prather, Spiritual Notes to Myself, p. 7
I observed that true womanhood requires true maturity, which is not easy for anyone to attain. I realized that it is more important in this life to be a whole person, God’s true woman, than to be a married woman.
— Margaret Clarkson, So You’re Single, p. 26