Your unhappiness ultimately arises not from the circumstances of your life but from the conditioning of your mind.....Eckhart Tolle

We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses. - Carl Jung

The place God calls you to is where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet. - Frederick Buechner

All people want and have the right to be treated with Dignity and Respect, No Exceptions. The only way we can do this is by separating people from their behavior. Behavior is not always worthy of respect, but the person always is...♥ Gail Pursell Elliott.

‎"The number of people who have fled the church because it is too patient or compassionate is negligible; the number who have fled because they find it too unforgiving is tragic." - Brennan Manning

"That’s the secret to teaching, really. Engage the emotions,
and minds will follow." Cesar Milan

“If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don't want to do it.” - Stephen Colbert