W Quotes
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“When we Christians behave badly, or fail to behave well, we are making Christianity unbelievable to the outside world”
Source: Mere Christianity
“When we Christians behave badly, or fail to behave well, we are making Christianity unbelievable to the outside world. The wartime posters told us that Careless Talk costs Lives. It is equally true that Careless Lives cost Talk. Our careless lives set the outer world talking; and we give them grounds for talking in a way that throws doubt on the truth of Christianity itself.”
Source: Mere Christianity
“When we chronically disregard the inner voice of the body, our unresolved emotional needs and traumas may start to emerge physically as various pains, tensions, and symptoms. Our muscles remember what our mind tries to forget.”
Source: Awaken To Love: Reclaiming Wholeness through Embodied Nonduality with Jungian Wisdom, Psychosynthesis & Internal Family Systems
“When we clean obsessively we do indeed get rid of everything, both bad and good. This can not be a good kind of cleanliness. As it happens the higher the hygiene standards in a country the higher that nations incidents of allergies and autoimmune diseases. The more sterile a household is the more its members will suffer from allergies and autoimmune diseases. Thirty years ago about 1 person in 10 had an allergy. Today that figure is 1 in 3. At the same time, the number of infections has not fallen significantly. This is not smart hygiene.”
Source: Gut: The Inside Story of Our Body's Most Underrated Organ
“When we clean up after ourselves, we have nothing to blame. When we begin to live our lives in that way, cleaning up after ourselves, what is left is further vision and further openness, which leads to cleaning up the rest of the world.”
“When we clear the physical clutter from our lives, we literally make way for inspiration and 'good, orderly direction' to enter.”
“When we clearly understand that there is no superior sex or superior race, we will have opened the door of communication and laid the foundation for building winning relationships with all people in this global world of ours.”
“When we cling to pain, we end up punishing ourselves.”
“When we cling too tightly to any of our roles or beliefs about who we should be or how we should live our lives, we cause ourselves unnecessary mental suffering. But the wonderful news is that there’s a way to go beyond letting outside circumstances and expectations disrupt our peace.”
“When we cling too tightly to what God did last, we often miss what God wants to do next.”
“When we cling, often forever, to our old patterns of thinking and behaving, we fall to negotiate any crisis, to truly grow up, and to experience the joyful sense of rebirth that accompanies the successful transition into greater maturity.”
“When we close our options at some point of time, we learn to be happy with what we have. However, when we keep our options open, we are rarely happy with what we have as we find the grass greener on the other side of the fence.”
Source: 31 Ways to Happiness
“When we close ourselves off, we're not just closing ourselves off to other people, we're closing ourselves off from ourselves and impeding ourselves. When you open up, you allow yourself to be who you are.”
“When we clutter our lives with imagined obligations, unnecessary activities, and distractions that only kill time, we dilute the power of our lives.”
“When we collide
It’s like taking a bite of your favorite dish.
one that you haven't had in a while.
So satisfying and necessary.
When we collide
It’s so legendary that people speak about our union.
like it's a myth that doesn't exist.
When we collide it's like a chef's kiss.
So perfect and amazing in every way.
When we collide, I wish I could be with you forever.
giving and receiving pleasure
that's always beyond measure.
that's only achieved when we're together.
When we collide
our bodies, our hearts, and our minds intertwine.
and move smoothly as one.
Our collision is second to none.
and when I think that it's done
you sing softly in my ear.
We’ve only just begun.”
Source: Twelve Midnight
“When we combine acceptance with self-responsibility we can then see that whenever we are in a painful or disturbing situation we have two choices: We can work compassionately to bring something positive to the situation or leave. However, the key is the mental stance that we make the choice from, and thus the first step is always accepting the moment without resistance.”
“When we combine the strategic order of relationships with discipleship, it helps provide clarity on relationships we should be prioritizing. We start with the relationships God has given us direct responsibility over, then we work our way outward from there. Asking ourselves, “Whom can we disciple?” and praying about it helps guide us to those in our current season of life we should be prioritizing.”
Source: Reviving Fatherhood: Guiding Every Dad from First Steps to Lasting Legacy
“When we combine very real workplace inequalities with these romantic opt-out stories, the idea that "having it all" is a laughable goal becomes enshrined as immutable truth. And when we portray opting out as a simple matter of "choice," we ignore the systematic problems that make combining work and motherhood so difficult.”
Source: Homeward Bound: Why Women Are Embracing the New Domesticity
“When we come back to fantasy, I think we're actually coming back to the real bedrock of storytelling. Our national or international genre really is fantasy, if you think about the worldwide myths and legends and stories that we all know, whether we're talking about Little Red Riding Hood or the Arabian Nights or Noah's Ark or Hercules. These are stories that cross many cultures in much the same way that dragons cross many cultures.”
“When we come close to those things that break us down, we touch those things that also break us open. And in that breaking open, we uncover our true nature.”
Source: How Then, Shall We Live?: Four Simple Questions That Reveal the Beauty and Meaning of Our Lives
“When we come face-to-face with one down a dark alley, we're going to be having a shufti to see if it's solid, aren't we, we're not going to be asking, 'Excuse me, are you the imprint of a departed soul?”
“When we come from an authentic, genuine place in ourselves, our efforts to connect with people work to their fullest. Our relationships develop more easily and last longer, and we feel better about the people”
Source: 11 Laws of Likability
“When we come in contact with our true self, we stop trying to be someone else. We fall in love with it and embrace it with all its flaws :-)”
Source: The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For continued success in leadership
“When we come into contact with the other person, our thoughts and actions should express our mind of compassion, even if that person says and does things that are not easy to accept. We practice in this way until we see clearly that our love is not contingent upon the other person being lovable.”
Source: Transformation and Healing
“When we come into money or lose a job, when our land experiences floods or droughts, when our country finds peace or enters wars, there are this-worldly reasons for these events. Appealing to a mystical force will do no good.”
Source: Creating Change Through Humanism
“When we come into money or lose a job, when our land experiences floods or droughts, when our country finds peace or enters wars, there are this-worldy reasons for these events. Appealing to a mystical force will do no good.”
Source: Creating Change Through Humanism
“When we come into the present, we begin to feel the life around us again, but we also encounter whatever we have been avoiding. We must have the courage to face whatever is present - our pain, our desires, our grief, our loss, our secret hopes our love - everything that moves us most deeply.”
“When we come into this life, we don't really own anything. And we own nothing when we leave. It is only a lease we have during our lifetime, and it is up to us to make the most of it.”
“When we come near the light, all the darkness around us, shall disappears.”
“When we come to [work] we bring an attitude. We can bring a moody attitude and have a depressing day. We can bring a grouchy attitude and irritate our coworkers and customers. Or we can bring a sunny, playful, cheerful attitude and have a great day.”
“When we come to a clearer and more sober estimate of our own limitations and responsibilities, that makes it possible more genuinely to love our neighbor.”
“When we come to a comparison of heaven and earth, then we may indeed not only forget all about the present life, but even despise and scorn it.”
“When we come to an edge we come to a frontier that tells us that we are now about to become more than we have been before.”
Source: The Time Falling Bodies Take To Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture
“When we come to be instructed by Philosophers, we must bring the old light of common sense along with us, and by it judge of the new light which the Philosopher communicates to us. But when we are required to put out the old light altogether, that we may follow the new, we have reason to be on our guard.”
Source: Essays In The Intellectual Powers Of Man: To Which Is Annexed An Analysis Of Aristotle Logic
“When we come to Christ, we’re no longer the most important person in the world to us; Christ is. Instead of living only for ourselves, we have a higher goal: to live for Jesus.”
“When we come to face the entangled vagaries on the chessboard of our life, let us not shrink from using the queen’s gambit to disentwine predictable hassles or diffuse incendiary plots if we want to take control of our being and make our dreams come true, transparent, and straightforward. (”Life with a sea view”)”
“When we come to images or memories or thoughts, speculation, while always closely related to practice, is more explicit, and it is in fact not immediately obvious that such processes can be described in any sense as practical.”
“When we come to it
We must confess that we are the possible
We are the miraculous, the true wonders of this world,
that is when, and only when we come to it”
Source: Celebrations: Rituals of Peace and Prayer
“When we come to judge others it is not by ourselves as we really are that we judge them, but by an image that we have formed of ourselves from which we have left out everything that offends our vanity or would discredit us in the eyes of the world.”
Source: Mr. Maugham Himself
“When we come to know who we truly are, we will see ourselves in all people.”
Source: 108 Quotes On Love
“When we come to nonattachment, then we can understand the marvelous mystery of the universe: how it is intense activity and at the same time intense peace, how it is work every moment and rest every moment.”
Source: Living at the Source: Yoga Teachings of Vivekananda
“When we come to research, if we want to find out the cause of autism, we're going to have to be much more specific, and that's why when it comes to research, I'm fairly strict with respect to criteria. When it comes to treatment, I'm much more open to not making that differentiation.”
“When we come to see that it was no mere man who suffered on Calvary but the Lord of Glory, then we shall be willing to say that one drop of the precious blood of Jesus is of more value, for our own salvation and for the hope of society, than all the rivers of blood that have flowed upon the battlefields of history.”
Source: Christianity and Liberalism
“When we come to that compassionate awareness that is not afraid of the fear, that can embrace the fear, we are able to heal the wounds of the child and the adult and begin to live the lives we've always wanted to live.”
“When we come to the Babylonian Gemara, we are dealing with what most people understand when they speak or write of the Talmud. Its birthplace, Babylonia, was an autonomous Jewish centre for a longer period than any other land; namely, from soon after 586 before the Christian era to the year 1040 after the Christian era - 1626 years.”
Source: The Babylonian Talmud ...: Baba Kamma
“When we come to the end of our days, the little things will seem so unimportant compared to how well we've loved, laughed and treasured our lives and loved ones.”
“When we come to the end of ourselves, we find Jesus. When we come to Him in our brokenness, His grace is enough. Despite our free will, wrong turns, rebellion, poor choices, or going astray, Christ will never let us go. He leaves the ninety-nine sheep (His children) to find the one who's lost (us). And He carries us through the wilderness to do a mighty work within us.”
Source: Sacred Wandering: Growing Your Faith In The Dark
“When we come to the end of self we come to the beginning of Christ.”
“When we come to the last moment of this lifetime and we look back across it, the only thing that's going to matter is 'What is the quality of our love?'”
“When we come to the light of God, all our sins shall be forgiven by faith in Jesus Christ.”