Sometimes, in fact, it was the people who loved us the most who felt it was their responsibility to train us to struggle.
Sometimes people think that calling on God means inviting a force into our lives that will make everything rosy. The truth is, it means inviting everything into our lives that will force us to grow—an...
Our political challenges are mere symptoms of a deeper malaise and a deeper dysfunction. Humanity itself is being challenged to move on to the next stage of our evolution.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you...
It amuses me to think how angry I used to get when people wouldn’t sign my peace petitions.
Always seek less turbulent skies. Hurt. Fly above it. Betrayal. Fly above it.
Hope lies in having more faith in the power of God to heal us than in the power of anything to hurt or destroy us. In realizing that as children of God we are bigger than our problems, we have the pow...
Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help the desire to serve.
The way of the miracle-worker is to see all human behavior as one two things: either love, or a call for love.
I want to be a cheerleader for women who have never even considered running for office or being involved in a campaign, but who in the quietness of their hearts might think, 'Why not me?'
Love requires a different kind of seeing than we’re used to—a different kind of knowing or thinking. Love is the intuitive knowledge of our hearts. It’s a world beyond
You The Thought God holds of you is like a star, unchangeable in an eternal sky.
We were taught that things like grades, being good enough, money, and doing things the right way, are more important than love.
The moment of surrender is not when life is over. It’s when it begins.
The future is programmed in the present. To let the past go is to remember that in the present, my brother is innocent.
Our triumph over sorrow is not that we can avoid it but that we can endure it. And therein lies our hope; that in spirit we might become bigger than the problems we face.
Negativity poisons my mind, and positivity restores it. I have a choice whether to join in the darkness of the world, its petty judgments, and constant blame. When I do so I inject my psyche with pois...
May I be, this day, an instrument of love and healing.
Love does not conquer all things, but it does set all things right.
It is only when we have the courage to face things exactly as they are, without any self-deception or illusion, that a light will develop out of events, by which the path to success may be recognized.