W Quotes
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“When we neglect knowledge, we have indirectly rejected light.”
Source: The Mountain of Ignorance
“When we neglect our Bible study we often feel guilty. When you skip a meal do you feel guilty? No, you feel hungry. The Bible is food for our soul. When we fail to read it we should not feel guilty, we should feel hungry. Guilt is fueled by obligation hunger is fueled by desire.”
“When we neglect our soul’s growth, we miss the chance to realize our full potential. You
may not realize it now, imagining that the opportunity will always be there for you. But I would
compare it to the feeling of watching the train pull away just as you arrive on the platform, or
missing your flight even after you’ve run through the terminal to make it. You were nearly there. The regret of realizing that you didn’t live up to your potential is a heavy burden on one’s soul.”
Source: Spiritual Anatomy: Meditation, Chakras, and the Journey to the Center
“When we neglect the artist in ourselves, there is a kind of mourning that goes on under the surface of our busy lives.”
Source: Writing Alone and with Others
“When we neglect to tally our victories, our losses become too many to count.”
Source: Feast
“When we never miss a beat on the many unsuspected details that revamp our dreams and imbue our minds, we can hear our hearts sing and feel each bud of hope blossom. (“Girl in Blue”)”
“When we no longer are afraid of who we are we act from integrity and authenticity.”
“When we no longer have good cooking in the world, we will have no literature, nor high and sharp intelligence, nor friendly gatherings, no social harmony.”
“When we no longer seek God for His blessings, we have time to seek Him for Himself.”
Source: The Quotable Oswald Chambers
“When we notice a connection between our present fears and their origins in early life, we are finding out how much of our identity is designed by fear. Is fear the architect of me?”
Source: When Love Meets Fear: How to Become Defense-less and Resource-full
“When we numb [hard feelings], we numb joy, we numb gratitude, we numb happiness.”
“When we nurture, we need to do so from the deepest part of ourselves. Trying to fit into a "cookie-cutter" mold of nurturing will only frustrate and be harmful to both ourselves and our loved ones, cheating them of our full nurturing potential. To nurture is to be aware of our most true self and to give from that place. We make challah from a place of commitment to nourish ourselves and our families in a way that goes beyond mere physical feeding and watering.”
Source: Rising: The Book of Challah: Recipes for Challah & Life from Rebbetzin Rochie's Kitchen
“When we obey the commandments of the Lord and serve His children unselfishly, the natural consequence is power from God—power to do more than we can do by ourselves. Our insights, our talents, our abilities are expanded because we receive strength and power from the Lord. His power is a fundamental component to establishing a home filled with peace.”
“When we observe contemporary society one thing strikes us. We debate but make no progress. Why? Because as peoples we do not yet trust each other.”
Source: The Words of Albert Schweitzer
“When we observe oppression, let us develop strategies that free not only the oppressed but also the oppressor. Let us remember that those who use their power to deny freedom to others are also imprisoned and are also worthy of care. Do not let their unjust actions inspire us to cruelty, or else we will soon become what we set out against.
Here is our challenge: let us take up the miseducation of justice-making, by stripping our minds of the idea that equity can be manifested through condemnation, through humiliation, through shame and blame, and through righteous vindication. No, justice-making begins by marrying a just thought to insightful words, inviting us to collective action, by daring to free both the oppressed and the oppressor, for we know what it is like to be both.
Stand we must, stand strong and bold. But let us choose a new way to balance the scales. Rather than shoving our foot on oppressors’ necks, let us instead reach out a hand, offer a seat, and show them, and even ourselves, a new way of justice-making by collectively experimenting with the moral imagination.”
Source: Cultivating Empathy: The Worth and Dignity of Every Person—Without Exception
“When we observe the flow of our breathing, we transcend our thoughts and are able to bring mind and body into harmony with each other. Thus, we create calm.”
Source: The Kindness Habit: Transforming our Relationship to Addictive Behaviours
“When we observe trials and tribulations in our world, there's even more reason to lighten the heavy load. Sometimes life gets tough and it's disheartening. Never mind happiness; what we genuinely need is joy! God didn't intend for us to be sad or serious all of the time. His word in Proverbs 17:22 (ESV) says, “A joyful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.”
Source: Harvest of Hope: Living Victoriously Through Adversity, A 50-Day Devotional
“When we occasionally pause to meditate deeply on death and on being dead, the next time we are driving our red convertible BMW down Interstate 5 with the top down, the wind blowing in our hair, the sun slow-burning melanoma into our skin, and the stereo playing loud while we shout at the sky, “When you’re a Jet you’re a Jet all the way, from your first cigarette to your last dying day!”—our joy in being alive will be, will go, even deeper.”
“When we occupy our mind with an uncomfortable past situation, we’ve just place our future thoughts on hold, for the precious moments we should be thinking about. The wonders that wait ahead in our lives can be beautiful and amazing. Some of the most peaceful and satisfying thoughts we have, will be when we’re awake and dreaming.”
“When we of the so-called better classes are scared as men were never scared in history at material ugliness and hardship; when we put off marriage until our house can be artistic, and quake at the thought of having a child without a bank-account and doomed to manual labor, it is time for thinking men to protest against so unmanly and irreligious a state of opinion.”
Source: The Varieties of Religious Experience
“When we once begin to form good resolutions, God gives us every opportunity of carrying them out.”
“When we only name the problem, when we state complaint without a constructive focus or resolution, we take hope away. In this way critique can become merely an expression of profound cynicism, which then works to sustain dominator culture.”
Source: Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope
“When we open a book, we open a door to our own souls, inviting exploration and discovery.”
“When we open a door and switch on the light, we can see inside: what’s going on. Is there someone there? Is this a kitchen, or a bedroom? What is that book on the bed? Light gives us information. We become informed by light. Through light, we grow aware. In darkness, we can’t see the information. We can’t be informed. In the traditions, the divine declares, “Let there be light”. That is a command to life to be conscious—to turn on the light and become informed.”
“When we open our eyes to the little miraculous events all around us, life becomes a story of many little resurrections, one after the next.”
Source: Spirit In Disguise: A Guide to Miraculous Living, Book 2
“When we open our heart to receive God’s word, God in-turn will open our eyes so we can see the answer to our problems in His Word.”
“When we open our heart up to someone, that energy, of course, comes into us.”
“When we open our hearts to possibilities, we open our world to hidden light”
Source: Moondog and the Reed Leopard
“When we open our hearts to the breadth of our experiences, we learn to tune into our needs, unique perceptions, thoughts & feelings”
Source: Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
“When we open our minds to the unlimited creative power, we will call forth abundance and see and experience a whole new world.”
Source: The Secret
“When we open our spiritual eyes, we start seeing God everywhere we look. We see the image of God in others. We see His fingerprints on His creation. We see God-ordained opportunities all around us all the time.”
Source: Draw the Circle: The 40 Day Prayer Challenge
“When we open ourselves to exploring our creativity, we open ourselves to God: good, orderly direction.”
“When we open ourselves to the guidance of the Holy Spirit, prosperity abounds!”
“When we open ourselves up to feeling, we can't only open ourselves up to feeling certain things. The same is true when we shut ourselves down. The walls that guard against sadness also guard against happiness.”
“When we open ourselves you yourself to me and I myself to you, when we submerge you into me and I into you when we vanish into me you and into you I Then am I me and you are you.”
“When we open to love, we become love.”
“When we opened Babbo, we were an indie band. Now we're kinda Apple. We have 19 restaurants and 2,800 employees, we are no longer perceived as the indie band although we think of ourselves as the indie band, and we operate our restaurants as individual indie bands.”
“When we opened Disneyland, a lot of people got the impressions that it was a get-rich-quick thing, but they didn't realize that behind Disneyland was this great organization that I built here at the Studio, and they all got into it and we were doing it because we loved to do it.”
“When we opened the doors, we saw that the entire room was scorched black and you were on the floor possibly dead, surrounded by broken glass. Window glass is expensive, you realize that?" "Yes, Your Majesty," he said meekly.”
“When we operate out of fear, our identity and behavior get “stuck”—miring us in compromise and false religion.”
Source: Becoming a Face of Grace: Navigating Lasting Relationship with God and Others
“When we oppose God's delegated authority, we oppose God Himself.”
Source: Under Cover
“When we oppose the hidden conscience, it does us hurt. When we betray it, it judges us.”
“When we organize with one another, when we get involved, when we stand up and speak out together, we can create a power no government can suppress.”
Source: A Power Governments Cannot Suppress
“When we our betters see bearing our woes, We scarcely think our miseries our foes.”
Source: The plays of William Shakespeare : accurately printed from the text of the corrected copy left by the late George Steevens: with a series of engravings, from original designs of Henry Fuseli, and a selection of explanatory and historical notes, from the most eminent commentators; a history of the stage, a life of Shakespeare, &c. by Alexander Chalmers
“When we ourselves are not truly in a place of peace and we go out and try to create peace in the world, it becomes a fragmented and sometimes even corrupt form of peace. This happens because only peace can create peace, and unless we are the embodiment of it, we are projecting our bias of what peace should look like onto other people’s lives. To be at peace means to accept reality as is. Embodying peace is, in fact, the very essence of what it means to be free, as well as offering this freedom to others.”
Source: Living Peace: Essential Teachings For Enriching Life
“When we outlaw child pornography, the prices paid for child performers rise, increasing the incentives for parents to use children against their will.”
“When we over consume the Earth's resources, we create an economic imbalance in societies and in the world. Affluent people and affluent societies can afford to buy everything in large quantities. They have an abundance of wealth and think they have the license to waste. They use a great deal and leave others with very little. It is this imbalance between rich and poor that gives rise to crime, violence, prejudice, and other negative attitudes.
When some people cannot get what they need through honest hard work, and see others wasting what is so precious, they feel justified in taking it by force. The Earth can only produce enough for everyone's need, but not for everyone's greed. Our greed and wasteful habits perpetuate poverty, which is violence against humanity.”
Source: Legacy of Love: My Education in the Path of Nonviolence
“When we over emphasis that we need God for every little thing, then we begin to depend on miracles.”
“When we overemphasise miracles we underplay kingdom principles.”
“When we overlook them, life can start to feel like a series of disjointed highlights rather than a cloth spun with continuous thread. There is also opportunity in the spaces between. They are pockets of time where we can breathe, reflect and be present. ... Appreciating these spaces requires a shift in perspective. It asks us to stop viewing them as barriers to better things. It invites us to be curious about the quiet”