“Don't let the workings of adversity totally absorb your life. Try to understand what you can. Act where you are able; then let the matter rest with the Lord for a period while you give to others in worthy ways before you take on appropriate concern again. Please learn that as you wrestle with a challenge and feel sadness because of it, you can simultaneously have peace and rejoicing.” WayGivingFeelsTryingMatterAblePeaceChallengesLordSadnessPeriodsPleaseConcernAdversityWorthyAppropriateWhere You AreRejoice Author:Richard G. Scott
“Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes... can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.” WarPeaceVictoryConcernSettlingAnti WarAntiwarDisputesUnconditionalGreat Power Author:John F. Kennedy
“To allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender to too many demands, to commit oneself to too many projects, to want to help everyone in everything, is to succumb to the violence of our times.” WantHelpingWisdomPeaceViolenceDemandProjectsConcernOneselfSurrenderCommitOur TimeMultitudesCarried AwayFruitfulness Author:Thomas Merton
“The happiest people I have known have been those who gave themselves no concern about their own souls, but did their uttermost to mitigate the miseries of others.” PeopleHas BeensSoulPeaceChangeKnownAtheismConcernMiseryPositive AtheismUbuntu Book:Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences, 1815-1897 Source: Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences, 1815-1897