"Am I broken?" asked Rabbit? "No," said Bear, "you're healing. Healing can be messy and it takes time. Sometimes it might feel like you're broken but that's just a rough edge being soothed as it grows and fits into a new place. Soon...you'll be stronger than you were...
The ability to see beauty never grows old.
With each passing day of my life I find I am most attracted to kindness. It is a beauty that fades not with time but grows ever more striking. Kindness is never cryptic, you know it when you see it, when you hear it, and when you feel it.
Pride slays thanksgiving, but an humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.
Passive worship assumes that worship is something that somebody else does to you or for you. But active worship, which grows out of our response to divine action, breaks through the barriers of passive worship and returns worship to the people. from Worship Is a Verb:...
A crown is placed over our heads that for the rest of our lives we are trying to grow tall enough to wear.
In the preface to Margaret Guenther's Holy Listening, Alan Jones notes that spirituality deals with the "unfixable" aspects of our lives. His words remind us that darkness also has a light of its own. Within the darkness, the seedling grows. Within the womb, a new...
Raise your words, not your voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.