Top 1200 Our Lives Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

We magnetize into our lives whatever we hold in our thought.

Our task shouldn't be punishing the villains in our lives, but enlarging the God who heals us from all wounds.

We have our whole lives to try and get a glimpse of what that could be, in our own life. It's so exciting.

I think we validate our lives through our actions.

Our lives become trivial. And our capacity for magnificent causes and great worship dies.

Most of us do not 'sculpt' our lives. We accept what comes our way, then we gripe about it.

The stories we hear in our childhood are the ones we remember all our lives.

In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us.

The tunnels of our lives connect, coming to daylight at the oddest moments, and then plunge us into the dark again. We return to the lives of those who have gone before us, a perplexing möbius strip until we come home, eventually, to ourselves.

To what end do I lead a simple life at all, pray? That I may teach others to simplify their lives? - and so all our lives be simplified merely, like an algebraic formula? Or not, rather, that I may make use of the ground I have cleared to live more worthily and profitably?

The instability of our tastes is the occasion of the irregularity of our lives.

The Gospel was not meant merely to reside in our intellect, memories, and tongues, but to be seen in our lives.

We weren't lucky enough to sacrifice our lives for our country, but at least we can live for our country!

It's not what happens to us that makes the difference in our lives. What makes the difference is our attitude towards what happens. The idea of luck is a powerful way of illustrating the importance of our basic attitudes in affecting whether or not we find our Element.

We have lived our lives by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world. We have been wrong. We must change our lives so that it will be possible to live by the contrary assumption, that what is good for the world will be good for us. And that requires that we make the effort to know the world and learn what is good for it.

No matter what the circumstances of our death, we overcome the horrors of our lives and find peace at last.

Poems offer us counter-knowledges. They let us see what is invisible to ordinary looking, and to find in overlooked corners the opulence of our actual lives. Similarly, we usually spend our waking hours trying to be sure of things - of our decisions, our ideas, our choices. We so want to be right. But we walk by right foot and left foot.

Most incredible, however, are the times we know Christ is with us in the midst of our daily, routine lives. In the middle of cleaning the house or driving somewhere in the pick-up, He stops us. . . in our tracks and makes His presence known. Often it's in the middle of the most mundane task that He lets us know He is there with us. We realize, then, that there can be no "ordinary" moments for people who live their lives with Jesus.

I think stress is anything going on in our lives that impinges on our capacity to have optimum well being.

We also need to be willing to make room in our lives for the impending birth of our dreams.

The conduct of our lives is the true mirror of our doctrine.

The roots of the problems we face in the world, in our national life, and in our family and personal lives are spiritual.

Are we to assist it in gaining power in order to save our lives? Is that the paradox of our earthly situation?

Idolatry is huge in the Bible, dominant in our personal lives, and irrelevant in our mistaken estimations

And yet, words are the passkeys to our souls. Without them, we can't really share the enormity of our lives.

In the midst of our daily lives, we must find the juice to nourish our creative souls.

Work defines our lives and our place in the world.

Our worlds are so momentary. We are along all our lives and then go off that way as well.

If Jesus Christ isn't the central figure in our lives and in our churches, we're only fooling ourselves.

Let us renew our faith that as free men and women we still have the power to better our lives.

There is the tendency to place ourselves and our ambitions at the center of our lives. This is very human, but it is not Christian.

Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape.

Global climate change is real and we have a limited time to change our behavior or live with the consequences. We can all help by making small changes in our lives to letting our voice be heard by our governing bodies. As has always been the case in this country, if the people demand change, it will come.

If someone comes in without having been on a spiritual path for long, he or she still will understand what is happening to them in their human lives, what is happening through the evolution, how their humanness is playing such an important role at this time, and where they are in their lives with their inner feelings. It actually gives them a support system, a base from which they can start to evolve naturally within themselves through the understanding of our humanness, of our imperfection.

God writes the story of our lives with the pen strokes of our own free choices.

Energy is not only the basis of our existence, it is the fuel that makes everything in our lives real and possible.

Steve Sanders lives on in our hearts and in our minds.

Time is the missing ingredient in our recipes-and in our lives.

It is not just that animals make the world more scenic or picturesque. The lives of animals are woven into our very being - closer than our own breathing - and our soul will suffer when they are gone.

It seems to me that everyone on this planet whom I know or have worked with is suffering from self-hatred and guilt to one degree or another. The more self-hatred and guilt we have, the less our lives work. The less self-hatred and guilt we have, the better our lives work, on all levels.

If we can use our problems and illnesses as opportunities to think about how we can change our lives, we have power.

We spent our whole lives in unconsous excercise of the art of expressing our thoughts with the help of words

God enters our lives when through our creative interchanges we make history more just.

What would our lives be like if our days and nights were as immersed in nature as they are in technology?

I think that we need to live our lives for the present... as if it is our one and only wild and wonderful life.

We should endeavor practically in our lives to correct all the defects which our imagination detects.

Truth, acceptance of the truth, is a shattering experience. It shatters the binding shroud of culture trance. It rips apart smugness, arrogance, superiority, and self-importance. It requires acknowledgment of responsibility for the nature and quality of each of our own lives, our own inner lives as well as the life of the world. Truth, inwardly accepted, humbling truth, makes one vulnerable. You can't be right, self-righteous, and truthful at the same time.

The sex that is presented to us in everyday culture feels strange to me; its images are fragments, lifeless, removed from normal experience. Real sex, the sex in our cells and in the space between our neurons, leaks out and gets into things and stains our vision and colors our lives.

Our lives are made of these moments. Simple words and actions, taken together, weave a single day, and our days become our life. Every gesture is a seed, and the seed determines the harvest.

Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.

It is indeed impossible to describe reality 'in itself', but that does not mean that our lives are answerable to nothing but our own conventions and commitments. They are answerable to a way of things that transcends the reach of our conceptual schemes.

The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.

For one moment our lives met, our souls touched.

No powers determine our lives more completely than those we think we have under our control. I

Over the years I have learned that when I need answers to deal with crises, people, and issues, I must go to God. God will help us in everything we do if we stay in tune and if we will call on him. We must each plan our future with him in our homes, our families, and our relationships with others. If we make him our senior partner, our lives can be successful.

There is a sense in which the danger of our lives increases in proportion to the depth of our relationship with Christ.

I believe in this country and in our government, and I know that it can be a positive force for good in the lives of our people.

You have a class of young strong men and women, and they want to give their lives to something. Advertising has these people chasing cars and clothes they don't need. Generations have been working in jobs they hate, just so they can buy what they don't really need. We don't have a great war in our generation, or a great depression, but we do, we have a great war of the spirit. We have a great revolution against the culture. The great depression is our lives. We have a spiritual depression.

The greatest contribution we can make to the wellbeing of those in our lives is to have peace in our own hearts.

Let us not fail to scatter along our pathway the seeds of kindness and sympathy. Some of them will doubtless perish; but if one only lives, it will perfume our steps and rejoice our eyes.