#spirit

The secret to strong leaders is that strong leaders are strong because they have been tempered by the negative. They have discovered the secret of combining the negative and the positive to PRODUCED their very own POWER plant! ↗

— John Paul Warren

#central-christian-church #church #inspirational #john-paul #john-paul-warren

Poverty is relative, and the lack of food and of the necessities of life is not necessarily a hardship. Spiritual and social ostracism, the invasion of your privacy, are what constitute the pain of poverty. ↗

— Alice Foote MacDougall

#food #hardship #invasion #lack #life

Taking part in your own creation is as simple as changing your mind. The way you think literally creates your everyday reality. Obsessive and negative thinking fosters a negative or even hostile lifestyle. Positive and constructive thoughts create happiness and contentment in the same manor. The fortunate thing for us is that the frequency wave of a positive thought far exceeds that of a negative one, so even if we suffer through a bout of depression or anger, a few positive thoughts can easily reverse the damage we have created in ourselves ↗

— Gary Hopkins

#enlightenment #god #higher-self #holy-spirit #inspirational

You can lose your MONEY. You can lose your FRIENDS. You can lose your JOB and you can lose your MARRIAGE...and still recover...as long as there is HOPE. Never lose HOPE. ↗

— John Paul Warren

#central-christian-church #church #inspirational #john-paul #john-paul-warren

The universal principle of etymology in all languages: words are carried over from bodies and from the properties of bodies to express the things of the mind and spirit. The order of ideas must follow the order of things. ↗

— Giambattista Vico

#carried #express #follow #ideas #languages

It is the capacity to develop and improve their skills that distinguishes leaders from followers. ↗

— Warren G. Bennis

#spiritual-maturity #leadership

There are times that people can be so blinded by what they want IT to be, that whatever reality they perceieve it SHOULD be, they lose. ↗

— Jared Matthew Kessler

#new-age #quote #spiritual #age

The theatre is a spiritual and social X-ray of its time. ↗

— Stella Adler

#spiritual #theatre #time #x-ray

The goal of prayer is to live all of my life and speak all of my words in the joyful awareness of the presence of God. Prayer becomes real when we grasp the reality and goodness of God's constant presence with 'the real me.' Jesus lived his everyday life in conscious awareness of his Father. ↗

— John Ortberg Jr.

#god #jesus #joy #prayer #presence

To learn a belief without the belief is to sing a song without the tune. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#mind #religion #spirit #faith