All Quotes By Tag: Fear
“As long as we are caving in to the vicious cycle of always trying harder in hopes that one day we won’t feel like such an outsider, we are not being obedient to the scriptural principle of living at peace wit ourselves. Instead, we’re living in turmoil, and that’s not the life Jesus invites us to live. We are invited to live at peace.At peace with our neighbors.At peace with our enemies.At peace with God. At peace with ourselves. And that critical last part means we must be affirming–and not just to others who are different. We need to affirm that place inside us that desperately wants to hear that we are good, that we are beautiful, and that the ways in which we are different are gifts to be celebrated.”
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“Take lightly what you hear about individuals. We need not distort trust for our paltry little political agendas. We tend to trust soulless, carried information more than we trust soulful human beings; but really most people aren’t so bad once you sit down and have an honest, one-on-one conversation with them, once, with an open heart, you listen to their explanations as to why they act the way they act, or say what they say, or do what they do.”
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“I’m not all that certain that we can handle magnificence. And I wonder if that’s why we take great things and diminish them through our small stories and weak renderings.”
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“Frankly, I’m not all that certain that I would die for me, which makes God’s choice to do so both confusing and beautiful.”
“People fear God, retribution, karma, the devil, when really it is only each other they have to fear.”
“Like all who search for truth out of fear, I desperately wanted someone else to tell me exactly what to do.”
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“God has placed Himself squarely within the confines of my confines so that within my reach there lays the very thing that I need to break me out of those confines. Therefore, if I remain confined, it may be because I don’t understand that I’m confined. And if I don’t understand that I’m confined, I can be certain that I don’t understand my need for God. And that is likely the greatest confinement of all.”
“(Life) it was a little bit nearer than God, but no less powerful and terrible. Yes, it was something, perhaps, that one did not wish to understand because one feared it, something to which one paid tribute lest it should feel offended and seize one, body and soul.”
“The mind knows the truth when your heart denies what it feels. When you don’t feel safe to let people in it is because you’re not ready to deal with the pain of honesty.”
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“Only courageous hearts can endure the bitterness of truth.”
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“Fear only one person that is God, listen to only one voice that is your conscience”.”
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“The truth is that judgment and fear will never stop, but they don’t actually do anything.”
“People only lie because they are afraid of the truth”
“Faith, in its most correct form, never removes responsibility; it removes fear of responsibility. The results are complete opposites with the greater saying, ‘God’s will is my delight.”