“Overconsumption is a "cancer eating away at our spiritual vitals." It cuts the heart right out of our compassion. It distances us from the great masses of broken bleeding humanity. It converts us into materialists. We become less able to ask moral questions. For example, just because we have the economic muscle to buy up vast amounts of the world's oil, does that give us the right to do so? When the poor farmer of India is unable to buy a gallon of gasoline to run his simple water pump because the world's demand has priced him out of the market, who is to blame?” WorldGivingHeartDoeRunningAbleSpiritualHumanityAsksWaterSimplePoorCompassionMoralCuttingEconomicExampleBrokenAmountDemandEatingMassIndiaBlameDistanceCancerOilMusclesFarmersConsumerismBleedingPumpsOverconsumptionGasolineGallons Author:Richard J. Foster
“To have peace and not war, the drift toward a war economy, as facilitated by the moves and the demands of the sophisticated conservatives, must be stopped; to have peace without slump, the tactics and policies of the practical right must be overcome. The political and economic power of both must be broken. The power of these giants of main drift is both economically and politically anchored; both unions and an independent labor party are needed to struggle effective.” WarMovingPoliticalPartyStruggleEconomyEconomicPolicyBrokenNeededDemandLaborOvercomingIndependentUnionsPracticalsGiantsSophisticatedTacticsEconomic PowerSlumps Author:C. Wright Mills
“In true love there is no heart break. A broken heat means broken demands, broken expectations and broken hopes.” HeartMeanBreakBrokenDemandExpectationsHeatHeart Break Author:Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
“Success by its very nature demands a period of overcoming, a process by which we become strong in broken places.” StrongProcessBrokenPeriodsDemandOvercoming Book:Daily Motivations for African-American Success: Including Inspirations from Famous African-American Achievers Source: Daily Motivations for African-American Success: Including Inspirations from Famous African-American Achievers
“You would not ask someone with a broken arm to swim the English Channel, so you cannot demand that the broken to live as if they were whole.” IfsWholeAsksBrokenArmsDemandSwim Author:John Eldredge
“There is nothing wrong with your marriage if you're dealing with bills and kids and the broken garbage disposal and in-laws and work demands. That's a normal marriage.” IfsKidsLawBrokenDemandNormalBillsGarbageIn-lawsGarbage Disposal Author:Phil McGraw
“Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.” IfsKindSexPleasureMagicMovementBrokenDemandAbandonSpellsCaressBroken PromisesMagic Words Author:Simone de Beauvoir