“Lord, help us to accept the pains and conflicts that come to us each day as opportunities to grow as people and become more like you.” PeopleHelpingPainOpportunityGrowsAcceptingLordLike YouConflictEach Day Author:Mother Teresa
“All systems of morality are fine. The gospel alone has exhibited a complete assemblage of the principles of morality, divested of all absurdity. It is not composed, like your creed, of a few common-place sentences put into bad verse. Do you wish to see that which is really sublime? Repeat the Lord's Prayer.” WishPrayerLordPrinciplesLike YouFineMoralityBibleSentencesRepeatsCreedsVersesAbsurditySublimeCommonplaceAssemblage Author:Napoleon Bonaparte
“I'm not guilty. You're the one that's guilty. The lawmakers, the politicians, the Colombian drug lords, all you who lobby against making drugs legal. Just like you did with alcohol during Prohibition. You're the one who's guilty. I mean, c'mon, let's kick the ballistics here: ain't no Uzi's made in Harlem. Not one of us in here owns a poppy field. This thing is bigger than Nino Brown. This is big business. This is the American way.” WayMeanMadeBigsLordFieldsLike YouPoliticianDrugBiggerAlcoholGuiltyKicksBrownProhibitionBig BusinessHarlemPoppiesNot GuiltyLawmakersBallistics Author:Wesley Snipes
“I learned that if you're going to be a troublemaker, you don't want a ton of witnesses, because there's inevitable fallout from living like you're in 'Lord of the Flies.'” IfsWantLordLike YouWitnessInevitableTroublemakerFallouts Author:Natasha Lyonne
“Lord, help us to see in your crucifixion and resurrection an example of how to endure and seemingly to die in the agony and conflict of daily life, so that we may live more fully and creatively. You accepted patiently and humbly the rebuffs of human life, as well as the torture of the cross. Help us to accept the pains and conflicts that come to us each day as opportunity to grow as people and become more like you-make us realize that it is only by frequent deaths of ourselves, and our self-centered desires that we can come to live more fully, only by dying with you that we can rise with you.” PeopleHumansWellsMaySelfHelpingPainDesireDiesOpportunityGrowsRealizingAcceptingLordDyingExampleLike YouConflictCrossesEndureAcceptedHuman LifeTortureEach DayDaily LifeResurrectionAgonySelf CenteredCrucifixionRebuff Author:Mother Teresa