When you create a difference in someone's life, you not only impact their life, you impact everyone influenced by them throughout their entire lifetime. No act is ever too small. One by one, this is how to make an ocean rise.
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate agitation are men who want crops without plowing the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the roar of its mighty...
Blessed are the agnostics. Blessed are they who doubt. Those who aren’t sure, who can still be surprised. Blessed are they who are spiritually impoverished and therefore not so certain about everything that they no longer take in new information. Blessed are those who...
To enjoy the ocean, we have to learn how to ride the waves, not control them. Similarly, to navigate life, we need to learn to ride life's waves, not control them.
You are not a drop in the ocean. You are an entire ocean in a drop.
I work in a decent sized, local, indie bookstore. It’s a great job 99% of the time and a lot of our customers are pretty neat people. Any who, middle of the day this little old lady comes up. She’s lovably kooky. She effuses how much she loves the store and how she...
A worldview is a wave, but not the entire ocean. from Holy Envy
Grief is like the ocean; it comes on waves ebbing and flowing. Sometimes the water is calm, and sometimes it is overwhelming. All we can do is learn to swim.
Many churches are like submarines. They close the hatch on the outside world and submerge themselves in an ocean of apathy. Before long, they’re caught between the devil and the deep blue sea.
The artist and the mystic know that you don't have to drink the ocean to swim in it; consequently, complexity does not engulf them.