Morgan Thomas > Morgan's Quotes

“And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“But the Hebrew word, the word timshel—‘Thou mayest’— that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That says the way is open. That throws it right back on a man. For if ‘Thou mayest’—it is also true that ‘Thou mayest not.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“But I have a new love for that glittering instrument, the human soul. It is a lovely and unique thing in the universe. It is always attacked and never destroyed - because 'Thou mayest.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“When a man says he does not want to speak of something he usually means he can think of nothing else.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“I can't prevent storms from coming, but I can decide not to invent my own.”
― Emily P. Freeman, Simply Tuesday: Small-Moment Living in a Fast-Moving World

“What gives moments meaning is not the moments themselves but the presence of Christ with us in the midst of them.”
― Emily P. Freeman, Simply Tuesday: Small-Moment Living in a Fast-Moving World

“In my own life I’ve found it to be true that when I hold on to the wrong things, the wrong things hold on to me.”
― Emily P. Freeman, Simply Tuesday: Small-Moment Living in a Fast-Moving World

“I don’t want to live my life in such a hurry that I’m always closing the fridge door with my foot and scribbling out birthday cards in my car at the last minute. I want to make bread, or at least find the time to toast it.”
― Emily P. Freeman, Simply Tuesday: Small-Moment Living in a Fast-Moving World

“Don’t try to handle your anxiety. Bring your anxiety into the presence of Christ. Don’t try to fix your loneliness. Bring your loneliness into the presence of Christ. Don’t try to hide your addiction. Bring your addiction into the presence of Christ. Don’t try to change your attitude. Bring your attitude into the presence of Christ. Don’t despise your humanity. Bring your humanity into the presence of Christ.”
― Emily P. Freeman, Simply Tuesday: Small-Moment Living in a Fast-Moving World

“We were made to build, to co-create, to bring glory to God with the work of our hands, to move into the world as unique reflections of Christ. But we were not made to fill rooms, stadiums, or bank accounts. We were not made to fill our souls with worth we construct with our hands.”
― Emily P. Freeman, Simply Tuesday: Small-Moment Living in a Fast-Moving World

“What connections and experiences have I missed because I'm either remembering a former embarrassment or fearing a new one?”
― Emily P. Freeman, Simply Tuesday: Small-Moment Living in a Fast-Moving World

“Jesus says his load is easy and his burden is light, but he doesn’t say there isn’t a load or a burden.”
― Emily P. Freeman, Simply Tuesday: Small-Moment Living in a Fast-Moving World

“Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby