“Before we too can move mountains, we must learn to walk the daily grind, one quiet step at a time. We must learn to serve before we can lead.”
Source: Lead Like a Superhero: What Pop Culture Icons Can Teach Us About Impactful Leadership
“You will never move mountains unless you are convinced that you have the authority to do so.”
Source: Kingdom Fundamentals: What the Kingdom of God Means and What it Means for You | A Thorough and Biblical Exposition of the Kingdom of Heaven as Preached by Jesus
“Move mountains in such a way that there will be no mountains to move.”
“To move a mountain, you must begin by picking up a single stone and carrying it to another place.”
Source: A Patchwork Of Moonlight And Shadow
“[Trans women] have to fight to be included within the category “woman” in a way that is not dissimilar from the earlier struggles of Black women and women of color who were assigned the gender female at birth.”
Source: Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement
“Things of themselves cannot touch the soul at all. They have no entry to the soul, and cannot turn or move it. The soul alone turns and moves itself, making all externals presented to it cohere with the judgements it thinks worthy of itself.”
Source: Meditations
“No matter what you think your present reality is...the truth of the gospel is that because of the cross and resurrection, your reality is now you and Jesus...forever!”
Source: Pray With Power: The Believer's Guide to Declarative Prayer
“I'm a pioneer, I'm an explorer, I'm a human, and I'm coming. I'm animated, I'm alive, my heart's big, it's got hot blood going through it fast. I like to fight, too! I like to eat! I like to have children! I'm here! I've got a life force: This is a human, this is what we look like, this is what we act like, this what everybody was like before us, this is what I am, I'm a throwback. I'm here! I've got the fire of human liberty! I'm setting fires everywhere, and humans are turning on everywhere.”
“Less is more. Progress is made through precise, persistent, and purposeful pushes.”
Source: Endeavor: Cultivate Excellence While Making a Difference
“Further, when markers of race, gender, gender fluidity, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religion and other factors are the only criteria considered in hiring or admissions, students are cheated, as are those chosen to meet diversity measures on the basis of identity alone. Nothing is more essentialist or constraining than diversity understood strictly in terms of identity.”
Source: Springtime for Snowflakes: Social Justice and Its Postmodern Parentage