‎"There is no meaner, more hateful person on Earth than a Christian who suspects you have gotten your theology wrong. Labeling that meanness as “being faithful” to the Gospel doesn’t make it less hateful . . . theology is best done with humility and a recognition that certainty is very hard to come by. When we become so certain that our theology is ironclad and right, that’s when we become smug, arrogant, and dismissive of people who disagree with us." – Jason Boyett

We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit." e.e. cummings.

We are what we believe we are. --CS Lewis

‎"Never, 'for the sake of peace and quiet,' deny your own experience or convictions." - Dag Hammarskjold

‎"By the hand of a murderer I can die but once, but to go continually in fear, why that is to die over and over and over again." - Abraham Lincoln, refusing to hide in response to reports of assassination threats on the day before he was shot.

‎"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are."
― Anaïs Nin 

"It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages." ~Henry Ford

In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit. --Anne Frank

Stop trying to protect, to rescue, to judge, to manage the lives around you. Remember that the lives of others are not your business. They are their business. They are God’s business ~ Leave it to God. It is an astonishing thought, unclench the fists of your spirit and take it easy. - Frederick Buechner

‎"Peace. It does not mean to be in a place where there is no noise, trouble or hard work. It means to be in the midst of all those things and still be calm in your heart."--unknown

There are some people who always seem angry and continuously look for conflict. Walk away: the battle they are fighting isn't with you, it is with themselves. --unknown.

I felt then, as I feel now, that the politicians who took us to war should have been given the guns and told to settle their differences themselves, instead of organizing nothing better than legalized mass murder. --Harry Patch, last surviving soldier of WWI

The most dangerous thing you can do is educate people, because when people become educated, you cannot control them or frighten them.  People who are educated know their own power and don't surrender it to others.  ---Jordan Maxwell

Since love does no wrong to his neighbor, it obviously follows that Christian love (and there is really no other true love, as we have seen) does not admit of wars and fightings. When the soldiers asked John the Baptist what they should do as followers of the Lamb of God to Whom he pointed, he replied, ‘Do violence to no man.’ Luke 3:14, KJV. An alternative rendering of John’s answer is, ‘Put no man in fear.’ It would be a very mild war in which this command was followed! If an army were composed of Christians, true followers of Christ, when they came in contact with the enemy, instead of shooting them they would find out what they needed and supply their wants. ‘If thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head. Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.’ Romans 12:20-21, KJV.

 - E. J. Waggoner       (The Glad Tidings, pp. 116-117)

Give up the need to know what happens tomorrow. Just be fully present and appreciate all that is in your life right now. _Carolyn Myss

You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness. --J.S. Foer