“Don’t just ask God to change the people and circumstances that irritate you; ask Him to change you and make you more tolerant.”
Source: Loving People Who Are Hard to Love: Transforming Your World by Learning to Love Unconditionally
“People cannot change other people, only God can truly change a person”
Source: Loving People Who Are Hard to Love: Transforming Your World by Learning to Love Unconditionally
“...most people in the ancient world, did not make a sharp distinction between myth and reality. The two were intimately tied together in their spiritual experience. That is to say, they were less interested in what actually happened, than in what it meant. It would have been perfectly normal, indeed expected, for a writer in the ancient world, to tell tales of gods and heroes, whose fundamental facts would have been recognized as false, but whose underlying message would have been seen as true.”
Source: Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth
“Trying to change other people is hard labor and very frustrating because it never works, so why not enjoy the aspects that you can enjoy in people and leave the rest to God?”
Source: Loving People Who Are Hard to Love: Transforming Your World by Learning to Love Unconditionally
“It only ever took a moment for life to break apart at the seams.”
Source: Sorrowland
“We never know when we're sincere. Perhaps we never are. And even if we're sincere about something today, tomorrow we may be sincere about its complete opposite.”
Source: The Book of Disquiet
“Nothing remains the same and noone can remain still. Forever changed and changing...when anticipating life's new chapters.”
“If your perception doesn't evolve with time, it's not a sign of conviction but cowardice.”
Source: World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets
“Own up your follies, use them
to sharpen your conviction.
Mistakes acknowledged are
the beginning of illumination.”
Source: World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets
“To exist is to deny. What am I today, living today, but the denial of who and what I was yesterday? To exist is to contradict oneself.”
Source: The Book of Disquiet