The most difficult part of personal growth is being willing to turn away from erroneous views from our past. Beliefs held for a long time tend to become sacred to us, even if they're wrong. It's naive to think that we gained a perfect, flawless understanding of truth....
Look, the world loves us when we are good, better, best, but this is the time when you want to stop feeling guilty that you are not living your best life, now. We’re not always doing mountaintop yoga. I used to have my own delusion of living my own best life...
Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world would do this, it would change the earth.
The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
We all need hope. No sparkling promises or wishes. No well laid intentions or plans. Hope. Four letters. Four letters that carry the weight of our whole world and all of our life hidden in the depth of their meaning. Whether we are waiting on a check to arrive, a door...
Those who proclaim the Gospel of Jesus Christ are humble and trust in God; they do not heap conditions upon others or promote themselves as the only "keepers of the truth"...
Find people who can handle your darkest truths, who don’t change the subject when you share your pain or try to make you feel bad for feeling bad. Find people who understand we all struggle, some of us more than others, and that there’s no weakness in admitting it....
The Quaker writer Richard Foster was the first to alert me, I believe, to the important distinction between power and authority. Power is claimed; authority is earned. Power is based on being in charge and having the leverage to impose punishment on others who might...
A lie doesn't become truth, wrong doesn't become right, and evil doesn't become good just because it's accepted by a majority.
I've always found more beauty in the ugly truth than in the prettiest of lies.