Exploring thoughts with purpose ℠
Courage doesn’t always roar.
– Mary Anne Radmacher, 1985 poem,
Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, (whispering), “I will try again tomorrow.”
reprinted in her book Courage Doesn’t Always Roar
Balance, peace, and joy are the fruit of a successful life. It starts with recognizing your talents and finding ways to serve others by using them.
– Thomas Kinkade,
reprinted in 21 Keys to Work/Life Balance
The limitation of the ethical phenomenon to its place and time does not imply its rejection but, on the contrary, its validation. One does not use canons to shoot sparrows.
– Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Ethics
Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able and yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom.
– William Penn, reprinted in The New Dictionary of Thoughts
Perfection is impossible without humility.
– Leo Tolstoy, A Calendar of Wisdom
Why should I strive for perfection
if I am already good enough?
If I look way back to the beginning of whatever-this-is that I’m stuck in the middle of, I suddenly realize that whatever-this-is got started by whatever-it-is that I was doing. And I can be utterly confident in the fact that whatever-it-is that I was doing, it wasn’t thinking.
– Craig D. Lounsbrough, Counselor and Life Coach
Since we belong to the day, let us be sober, and put on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet the hope of salvation.
1 Thessalonians 5:8
God has perfect timing –
– Worth the Wait, Performed by 33Miles
Never early, never late.
It takes a little patience
And it takes a lot of faith,
But it’s worth the wait.
