“Many survivors refuse to talk about what they went through but I've never been ashamed to have been in one of those places. The shame is not mine; the church should be ashamed. They say now they're sorry - what they mean is, sorry they were found out.” ShouldMeanHas BeensFoundChurchMinesShameSorryRefuseAshamedSurvivor Author:Mary Norris
“To love means not to impose your own powers on your fellow man but offer him your help. And if he refuses it, to be proud that he can do it on his own strength.” IfsMenLoveLifeHeartMeanHelpingCan DoStrengthProudOffersFellowsRefuseBe ProudFellow ManLove Means Author:Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
“I refuse to be misled by any kind of a mirage about any alleged success of what I write. Those things are too easily exaggerated, and even when they are true, they always mean less than they seem to.” WritingKindMeanSeemsSuccessRefuseExaggeratedMisledMirages Book:Entering the Silence: Becoming a Monk & Writer Source: Entering the Silence: Becoming a Monk & Writer
“To forgive the incessant provocations of daily life - to keep on forgiving the bossy mother-in-law, the bullying husband, the nagging wife, the selfish daughter, the deceitful son - how can we do it? Only, I think, by remembering where we stand, by meaning our words when we say in our prayers each night, “Forgive our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us.” We are offered forgiveness on no other terms. To refuse it is to refuse God’s mercy for ourselves. There is no hint of exceptions and God means what he says.” ThinkingMeanRememberLawMotherNightTermPrayerWifeSonHusbandDaughterMercyForgivingRefuseSelfishExceptionDaily LifeBullyingOur PrayersHintsIn-lawsOur WordsIncessantDeceitfulProvocationMother In LawNaggingBossy Author:C. S. Lewis
“A partial Jewish State is not the end, but only the beginning. ... I am certain that we will not be prevented from settling in the other parts of the country, either by mutual agreements with our Arab neighbors or by some other means. . . [If the Arabs refuse] we shall have to speak to them in a different language. But we shall only have another language if we have a state.” IfsWellsMeanEndsCountryStatesCertainSpeakLanguageRefuseNeighborSettlingAgreementMutualSettling In Author:David Ben-Gurion
“To be a disciple means forsaking everything to follow Jesus, unconditionally, putting our lives completely in His hands. When we say that we want to be His disciple, yet attach a list of conditions, Jesus refuses to accept our terms. His terms involve unconditional surrender.” WantMeanHandsJesusTermAcceptingOur LivesConditionsRefuseListsSurrenderDiscipleUnconditional Book:Stearns 2 in 1: The Hole in Our Gospel and Unfinished Source: Stearns 2 in 1: The Hole in Our Gospel and Unfinished
“Their [those with eating disorders'] task is to rescue themselves from a drive that is destroying them. Food embodies the false values that their own bodies refuse to assimilate, by which I mean that their bodies become edemic, bloated, allergic, or resort to vomiting the poison out. The unconscious body, and certainly the conscious body, will not tolerate the negative mother.” MeanBodyMotherValuesEatingConsciousNegativeTasksRefusePoisonUnconsciousDisorderDestroyingRescueTolerateResortsEating DisorderAllergicVomiting Author:Marion Woodman
“If to be great means to be good, then Denis Diderot was a little man. But if to be great means to do great things in the teeth of great obstacles, then none can refuse him a place in the temple of the Immortals.” IfsMenMeanLittlesRefuseObstaclesBe GoodTeethGreat ThingsTemplesLittle Man Author:Evelyn Beatrice Hall