#gem

Everyone can be great because everyone can serve. ↗

— Dr. Martin Luther King

#empowerment #encouragement #inspirational #inspirational

I often feel the pressure, from my peers and others, to come out and “take a stand” on a moral or social issue. Typically, I refuse to do so, or at least I refuse to do so in a way that will please my critics. On so many of the hard and divisive issues of our times, I don’t close my eyes. I do stand for something: I stand for love. For if Jesus came, not to condemn the world, but to redeem it, how can we who bear the Name respond any differently? Yes, what I believe about all these moral and social issues matters, without a doubt. But these beliefs mean nothing, if my first and consuming conviction is not love for those who are different and believe differently than me. We have a choice: We can choose to show how “right” we are, or we can choose to love. Sometimes, it is impossible to do both at the same time. ↗

— Ronnie McBrayer

#judgement #love #love

Just pick a goal and stick to it―no big complicated secret. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#encouragement #goals #inspirational-quotes #richelle #richelle-goodrich

A spiritual organization with a hierarchical structure can convey only the consciousness of estrangement, regardless of what teachings or deep inspirations are at its root.The structure itself reinforces the idea that some people are inherently more worthy than others. ↗

— Starhawk

#heirarchy #paganism #inspirational

Your nature is not the problem. The problem is that you have become alienated from your nature -- from your power source. ↗

— Laurie Helgoe

#inspirational #inspirational

Not everyone deals with what they don't like or understand in a positive way. Some people are going to judge you. Sometimes it's someone you really love and being rejected by them is incredibly painful. ↗

— Lauren Dane

#rejection #love

It's not what you can do, it's how God can do through you. ↗

— Hannah Mae Bencio

#god #motivation #motivational

We have come here together so that you might know, through virtue of your own pain, your own hopelessness, your own fear, your own darkness and the lie of powerlessness, the very actual power of your own will, of the will of your soul. ↗

— Jennifer DeLucy

#encouragement #hard-times #life #motivational #power

Right!" "Right!" "You can get there!" "I can get there!" "You're a natural at counting to two!" "I'm a nat'ral at counting to two!" "If you can count to two, you can count to anything!" "If I can count to two, I can count to anything!" "And then the world is your mollusc!" "My mollusc! What's a mollusc? ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#stupidity #vocabulary #men

At the root of all misery is unfulfilled desire. ↗

— Scott Hahn

#encouragement #inspirational #suffering #inspirational