GraceNotes Archive
Life is a matter of choice and every choice you make, makes you. | John Maxwell | |
A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears. | Michel de Montaigne | |
Not religiosity but the deeply held belief that we are inextricably connected to one another by a force greater than ourselves… | Brené Brown | |
Travel isn't always pretty. It isn't always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that's OK. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind. | Anthony Bourdain | |
We can do no great things – only small things with great love. | Mother Teresa | |
Give a girl the right shoes and she can conquer the world. | Marilyn Monroe | |
What does it mean to listen to a voice before it is spoken? It means making space for the other, being aware of the other, paying attention to the other, honouring the other. | Dr. Parker J. Palmer | |
It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved. | Mother Teresa | |
Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation. | Rabindranath Tagore | |
Live the actual moment. Only this actual moment is life. | Thich Nhat Hanh | |
Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God. | Corrie Ten Boom | |
I love having my ghosts and I love having my memories. | Debbie Reynolds | |
To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance. | Buddha | |
I think unconscious bias is one of the hardest things to get at. | Ruth Bader Ginsburg | |
Bless anything that shows you wisdom. Anything that shows you wisdom has become a part of who you are and has drawn you closer to life. | Rachel Naomi Remen | |
To drop into being means to recognize your interconnectedness with all life, and with being itself. Your very nature is being part of larger and larger spheres of wholeness. | Jon Kabat-Zinn | |
What we call chaos is just patterns we haven't recognized. What we call random is just patterns we can't decipher. | Chuck Palahniuk | |
It's more important to be in right relationship than it is to be right. | Parker Palmer | |
Love one another as I have loved you. | John 13:34 | |
Let silence take you to the core of life. | Rumi | |
A life without love is like a year without spring. | Octavian Paler | |
Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it. | Mark Twain | |
… a spiritual journey, is intuitive, nonlinear, and experiential. It points us toward our essential nature, which is a reflection of the boundless creativity of the universe. | John Daido Loori | |
When things change inside you, things change around you. | Unknown | |
With your eyes open, doors open. | A.R. Kane | |
I am in you and you in me, mutual in divine love. | William Blake | |
What we plant in the garden of contemplation, we will reap in the harvest of action. | Meister Eckhart | |
I have just three things to teach: Simplicity, patience, compassion. | Lao Tzu | |
We have birthdays and bar mitzvahs and funerals and weddings. And these ceremonies and rituals, I believe, really help us transition from one point to another. | Suleika Jaouad | |
There are no words for this unholy time. | ||
The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have. | Norman Vincent Peale | |
For she is terrible with the terror of the avenging lightning, and gentle with the goodness of the bright sun… | Hildegard von Bingen | |
I can see clearly now… | Johnny Nash | |
Our own life has to be our message. | Thich Nhat Hanh | |
Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning. | Desmond Tutu | |
Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution. | Pierre Teilhard de Chardin | |
Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world. | John Milton | |
God speaks in the silence of the heart. Listening is the beginning of prayer. | Mother Teresa | |
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love. | Sophocles | |
Remain true to yourself, but move ever upward toward greater consciousness and greater love! | Teilhard de Chardin | |
Perhaps love is like a resting place, a shelter from the storm. It exists to give you comfort, it is there to keep you warm, and in those times of trouble when you are most alone, the memory of love will bring you home. | John Denver | |
If I know what love is, it is because of you. | Hermann Hesse | |
The enemy is fear. We think it is hate; but it is fear. | Gandhi | |
The consciousness in you and the consciousness in me, apparently two, really one, seek unity and that is love. | Nisargadatta Maharaj | |
Opening your heart, you become accepted. | Lao Tzu | |
Without action, you aren't going anywhere. | Gandhi | |
So powerful is the light of unity that it can illuminate the whole earth. | Bahá’u'lláh | |
The soul lets no man go without some visitations and holy-days of a diviner presence. | Ralph Waldo Emerson | |
Your sacred space is where you can find yourself over and over again. | Joseph Campbell | |
The imagination retains a passion for freedom. | John O'Donohue | |
Love is stronger than death… | The Song of Solomon | |
Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. | 1 Corinthians 13 | |
Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are. | Alfred Austin | |
Blessed are the poor in heart: they shall see God. | Matt. 5:8 | |
Listening is where love begins: listening to ourselves and then to our neighbors. | Mr. Rogers | |
It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences. | Audre Lorde | |
God is nearer to us than our own spirit. | Julian of Norwich | |
Sometimes, supporting someone in the messiness of life means helping them realize that they know more than they think they do! | The Reverend Deborah Darlington | |
But now you will ask me, “How am I to think of God himself, and what is he?” and I cannot answer you except to say, “I do not know.” | The Cloud of Unknowing | |
Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift. | Mary Oliver | |
Some people grumble that roses have thorns; I am grateful that thorns have roses. | Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr | |
We need to wake up and realize that the Earth is our mother as well as our home—and in this case the umbilical cord binding us to her cannot be severed. When the Earth becomes sick, we become sick, because we are part of her. | A Western Soto Zen Buddhist Statement | |
Faith is not something that goes against the evidence, it goes beyond it. | Alister McGrath | |
The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness. | Henry David Thoreau | |
Order – Disorder – Reorder | Richard Rohr | |
I sleep but my heart is awake. | The Song of Songs | |
When your life is filled with the desire to see the holiness in everyday life, something magical happens: ordinary life becomes extraordinary, and the very process of life begins to nourish your soul! | Rabbi Harold Kushner | |
The unholy pain of exclusion should not be felt by anyone. | Deborah Darlington | |
My commandment is this: Love each other as I have loved you. | John 15:12 New Testament | |
Let it be still, and it will gradually become clear. | Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching | |
Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy and serenity. | Thich Nhat Hanh | |
Christmas doesn't come from a store. Maybe Christmas perhaps means a little bit more. | Dr. Seuss | |
The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all. | Helen Keller | |
Did I forgive? Did I love? These are the real questions. | Henri Nouwen | |
Simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. | Lao Tzu | |
Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go. | Hermann Hesse | |
Detachment is not that you should own nothing. But that nothing should own you. | Ali ibn abi Talib | |
Humanity was created in the image of God; our love is a reflection of his. | Meir Soloveichik | |
“You cannot pour from an empty cup.” | Various | |
Fellowship is a place of grace… | Rick Warren | |
Do all the good you can… | John Wesley | |
Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold; happiness dwells in the soul. | Democritus | |
A little bit of mercy makes the world less cold and more just. | Pope Francis | |
It is tenderness for the past, courage for the present, hope for the future. It is a fervent wish that every cup may overflow with blessings rich and eternal, and that every path may lead to peace. | Agnes M. Pharo | |
“Thank you” is the best prayer that anyone could say. | Alice Walker | |
Autumn is the season of change. | Taoist Proverb | |
This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love. | Peace Pilgrim | |
Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake. | William James | |
He who is filled with love is filled with God… | St. Augustine | |
God is a concept by which we measure our pain. | John Lennon | |
Within you lies the opportunity to grow in Spirit… | White Eagle | |
Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak whispers the o'er-fraught heart and bids it break. | William Shakespeare | |
Who looks outside dreams; who looks inside awakes. | Carl Jung | |
Art is a wound turned into Light. | Georges Braque | |
Who looks outside dreams; who looks inside awakes. | Carl Jung | |
Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness. | Desmond Tutu | |
Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. | John 14:27 | |
Material and infinite are inseparable. Appreciating their interconnectedness is the gateway to understanding. | Lao Tsu | |
Imperfections are not inadequacies; they remind us that we are all in this together. | Brené Brown | |
I'm too alone in the world, yet not alone enough to make each hour holy. | Rainer Maria Rilke | |
If our lives are made up of a string of a thousand moments, at some of those moments we look a lot more spiritually evolved than at others. | Anne Lamott | |
I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here; and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end. | Khalil Gibran | |
Embrace all things as part of the Harmonious Oneness, and then you will begin to perceive it. | The Tao Te Ching | |
All, everything that I understand, I only understand because I love. | Leo Tolstoy | |
The suchness of each moment is the infinite mercy of God. | Paul Knitter | |
When your heart has cracks in it, it lets the light in… | Ellen DeGeneres | |
The fault lies not within the stars but within ourselves. | William Shakespeare | |
The best way out is always through. | Robert Frost | |
We don't think ourselves into a new way of living; we live ourselves into a new way of thinking. | Richard Rohr | |
Every change of mind is first of all a change of heart. | The Dalai Lama | |
Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. | Matthew 6:34 | |
A true friend is the greatest of all blessings. | Francois de La Rochefoucauld | |
He who experiences the unity of life sees his own self in all beings, and all beings in his own self, and looks on everything with an impartial eye. | The Buddha | |
Come and follow… plunge into the incomparable bliss of the spiritual life and abide in it. | The Anguttara Nikaya | |
I believe that if Mohammed, Buddha, Jesus, and Moses all got together they would be best of friends because the spiritual basis of all religions is something that builds unity. | Yehuda Berg | |
Then shall your light break forth like the dawn, and your healing shall spring up speedily. | Isaiah 58:8 | |
Giving simply because it is right to give, without thought of return, at a proper time, in proper circumstances, and to a worthy person, is enlightened giving. | The Bhagavad Gita 17.20 | |
When your life is filled with the desire to see the holiness in everyday life, something magical happens: ordinary life becomes extraordinary, and the very process of life begins to nourish your soul! | Rabbi Harold Kushner | |
Remember not the former things, nor consider the things of old. Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert. | Isaiah 43:18-19 | |
The two hardest tests on the spiritual road are the patience to wait for the right moment and the courage not to be disappointed with what we encounter. | Paulo Coelho | |
If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies in yourself. | Native American Proverb | |
To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven. | Ecclesiastes 3:1 | |
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end. | Seneca | |
An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind. | Mahatma Gandhi | |
Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish. | Jean De La Fontaine | |
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. | Helen Keller | |
All things born in truth must die, but out of death comes life. | The Bhagavad Gita | |
Therefore let us present the same face to everyone and treat all men as equals… In this clarity of a still and open mind truth will be reflected. | Lao Tsu | |
Presence is the capacity to be present for another person with an open heart and to be grounded in our inner being. It is to be present for another person as a supporting light, as a supporting presence - and simply to be present with another person can help. | Swami Dhyan Giten | |
I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want. | Mark Twain | |
We are such stuff as dreams are made of … | William Shakespeare | |
Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving. | W.T. Purkiser | |
The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive. | John Green | |
Rest and be thankful. | William Wordsworth | |
I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music. | George Eliot | |
Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance. | Eckhart Tolle | |
I do not understand the mystery of grace — only that it meets us where we are and does not leave us where it found us. | Anne Lamott | |
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better. | Albert Einstein | |
Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions. | The Dalai Lama | |
QUIT — is not a 4-letter word! | Deborah Darlington | |
Belatedly, I loved thee. O Beauty so ancient and so new, belatedly I loved thee. For see, thou wast within and I was without… | St. Augustine | |
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. | Martin Luther King, Jr. | |
We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come. | Joseph Campbell | |
It doesn't matter if the glass is half empty or half full. Be thankful that you have a glass and that there's something in it! | Johnnie Ivery | |
My head is bursting with the joy of the unknown. My heart is expanding a thousand fold. | Rumi | |
The day will come when, after harnessing the ether, the winds, the tides and the gravitation, we shall harness for God the energies of love. And, on that day, for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire. | Pierre Teilhard de Chardin | |
Calmness is the living breath of God's immortality in you. | Paramhansa Yogananda | |
God is like a person who clears his throat while hiding and so gives himself away. | Meister Eckhart | |
The only man who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew every time he sees me, while all the rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them. | George Bernard Shaw |