Incidental Mentions

A Collection of My Favorite Meaningful Quotes

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And Jesus’ words to Martha are the words he wants to speak to your heart and mine: “You are worried and upset about many things, but only one thing is needed.” The “one thing” is not found in doing more. It’s found by sitting at his feet. ― Having a Mary Heart in a Martha World: Finding Intimacy with God in the Busyness of Life

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Without the Bible as our basis for justice, we get a system based on the only tool we have without a supreme moral Lawgiver: the self.

You're Not Enough (and That's Ok): Escaping the Toxic Culture of Self-Love

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Just because you're an adult doesn't mean you're grown up. Growing up means being patient, holding your temper, cutting out the self-pity, and quitting with the righteous indignation.' 'Why do so many people seem to love righteous indignation?' Because if you can prove you're a victim, all rules are off. You can lash out at people. You don't have to be accountable for anything.

Brandon Stanton, Humans of New York

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We have to heal our wounded world. The chaos, despair, and senseless destruction we see today are a result of the alienation that people feel from each other and their environment.

Michael Jackson

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People mess up, you know? But you can’t see past it. It’s like you choose one thing about them—the worst thing—and say, ‘That’s who they are,’ and ignore the rest of it. Why not choose the best thing about them instead? Or the thing they do the most?

Bruised

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God has not been trying an experiment on my faith or love in order to find out their quality. He knew it already. It was I who didn't. In this trial He makes us occupy the dock, the witness box, and the bench all at once. He always knew that my temple was a house of cards. His only way of making me realize the fact was to knock it down.

A Grief Observed

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Some people can hate you and perhaps hire others to join the bandwagon, but one thing is certain; they can’t turn God against you.

The Infinity Sign

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Be completely sincere in love; don’t love just because you want to fill a void or gratify a desire. Love, because you are convinced that your feelings are true.

The Infinity Sign

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We should be trying to reach out to those who don’t know Jesus Christ, which is impossible in an atmosphere of hostility.

Life On the Edge

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Only one thing is necessary: we should all have a pure heart, with no anger, hatred, irritation, or hostility in it. If you feel hostility toward another person, think about their inner state. Do not think about yourself, or that you want to prove yourself right. In your quiet, inner thoughts, try to find the good in others. Do not say anything bad about others, even in your own thoughts. When you interact with a person, try to find as much common ground as possible, the more the better, and try to nurture this feeling. To cease being angry with a person and instead to seek peace, forgiveness and love toward him, remind yourself of any sins you may have in common and compare them.

Leo Tolstoy

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Animosity is a weapon, and it’s not used against the person you can’t forgive – it’s used against yourself.

What Happens After

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Unprovoked hostility is often but displaced self-defense: 'I must stop him before he stops me.' In many of such environments, nobody is really hateful so much as they are just fearful.

Criss Jami

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You realize you've forgiven people, your past and yourself when you don't speak bad about them anymore, even if you're encouraged to do so, even if you remember you were once brutally broken because of them... you just move on, let go, let them be and let yourself be...

Sanhita Baruah

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Living through difficult life circumstances in not an excuse for passing trauma onto someone else.

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We would all benefit by shifting our focus from seeing pain as bad to seeing pain as motivation to change.

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The more we lie to ourselves about how we are contributing to our problems, the more harm we will cause to ourselves and our relationships because we will blame others for undesirable aspects of our lives instead of taking responsibility for our role.

Cortney S. Warren

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It is depressing to have to point out, yet again, that there is a distinction between having the legal right to say something & having the moral right not to be held accountable for what you say. Being asked to apologize for saying something unconscionable is not the same as being stripped of the legal right to say it. It’s really not very [...] complicated. Cry “free speech” in such contexts, you are demanding the right to speak any bilge you wish without apology or fear of comeback. You are demanding not legal rights but an end to debate about and criticism of what you say.

China Miéville