"Joy can be real only if people look upon their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness."
-Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
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“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you someone else is the greatest accomplishment.”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
“It's not what you gather, but what you scatter that tells what kind of life you have lived.”
- Helen Walton
“Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day.”
- Henri Nouwen
“Don't postpone joy until you have learned all of your lessons. Joy is your lesson.”
- Alan Cohen
“As with most great communicators, God knows that the point of silence and the pause between sentences is not to give the audience the chance to fill the silence with empty babbling but to help create more depth to the conversation.”
- Renita J. Weems
This concludes a week of quotes from my favorite modern theologians.
“Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement. ....get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted. Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.”
- Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel
We’re continuing a week of quotes from my favorite modern theologians.
“Humor is, in fact, a prelude to faith; and laughter is the beginning of prayer.”
- Reinhold Niebuhr
We’re continuing a week of quotes from my favorite modern theologians.
“Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.”
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
We’re continuing a week of quotes from my favorite modern theologians.
“Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.”
- Karl Barth
We’re continuing a week of quotes from my favorite modern theologians.
“We find that when we act out of concern for others, the peace this creates in our own hearts brings peace to everyone we associate with.”
- The Dalai Lama
This begins a week of quotes from my favorite modern theologians.
“If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.”
- John F. Kennedy
“Even after all this time the sun never says to the earth you owe me. Look what happens with a Love like that, It lights the whole Sky.”
- Hafez
“It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that
matters in the end.”
- Ursula K. LeGuin
“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams, Live the Life you've imagined.”
~ Henry David Thoreau
