Words That Carry

Live in Hope

HOPE

The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.

- Barbara Kingsolver

Jennifer full of Grace

I thank God for believing in me even when I didn’t believe.

- Jennifer Hudson in her Oscar acceptance speech

Faith and Grace

Charge forward.  When we combine action with unwavering faith, the power of grace will meet our need.

- Cheryl Richardson

Crush a Violet...and???

Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.

- Mark Twain

Let Go and Let Grace In

I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free. 

Wendell Berry

Powerful beyond measure....

"Our biggest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you NOT to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."

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Marianne Williamson