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“The artist knows he must be alone to create; the writer, to work out his thoughts; the musician, to compose; the saint, to pray. But women need solitude in order to find again the true essence of themselves: that firm strand which will be the indispensable center of a whole web of human relationships. She must find that inner stillness which Charles Morgan describes as 'the stilling of the soul within the activities of the mind and body so that it might be still as the axis of a revolving wheel is still.'
This beautiful image is to my mind the one that women could hold before their eyes. This is an end toward which we could strive--to be the still axis within the revolving wheel of relationships, obligations, and activities. Solitude alone is not the answer to this; it is only a step toward it, a mechanical aid, like the 'room of one's own' demanded for women, before they could make their place in the world. The problem is not entirely in finding a room of one's own, the time alone, difficult and necessary as that is. The problem is more how to still the soul in the midst of its activities. In fact, the problem is how to feed the soul.”
― Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Gift from the Sea

“Have you forgotten what we are to say to ourselves every morning? 'Today I shall meet cruel men, cowards and liars, the envious and the drunken. They will be like that because they do not know what is good from what is bad. This is an evil which has fallen upon them not upon me. They are to be pitied, not...”
― C.S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces

“Uncritical acceptance of any party line is an idolatrous abdication of one’s core identity as Abba’s child. Neither liberal fairy dust nor conservative hardball addresses human dignity, which is often dressed in rags.
Abba’s children find a third option. They are guided by God’s Word and by it alone. All religious and political systems , Right and Left alike, are the work of human beings. Abba’s children will not sell their birthright for any mess of pottage, conservative and liberal. They hold fast to their freedom in Christ to live the gospel—uncontaminated by cultural dreck, political flotsam, and the filigreed hypocrisy of bullying religion”
― Brennan Manning, Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging

“When I'm in a toxic situation, I change my tactics. I don't expect the other person to act in a nontoxic way. That just leads to disappointment. Instead, I am focused on speaking the truth, guarding my sanity (trying to understand crazy behavior just makes you crazy), and doubling down on prayer: 'Heavenly Father, how do I best honor and serve you in this situation?”
― Gary Thomas

“The God of the Bible is too lovely to abandon for lesser pursuits.”
― Jen Wilkin, Women of the Word: How to Study the Bible with Both Our Hearts and Our Minds

“But no one except Lucy knew that as it circled the mast it had whispered to her, "Courage, dear heart," and the voice, she felt sure, was Aslan's, and with the voice a delicious smell breathed in her face.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

“Women who feel unattractive generally don’t believe it when someone tries to
assure them that they are beautiful. If beauty sickness were that easy to cure, I
wouldn’t be writing this book. Instead of messages that reinforce the idea that
physical beauty is an essential part of womanhood, we’d be better served by
changing the conversation altogether. If we want to improve women’s physical
and mental health, we need to spend less time talking about beauty and more
time talking about issues that matter more. We don’t need to talk about beauty in
a different way. We need to talk about it less.”
― Renee Engeln, Beauty Sick: How the Cultural Obsession with Appearance Hurts Girls and Women

“To give your positive or negative attention to something is a way of giving energy. The most damaging form of behavior is withholding your attention.”
― Masaru Emoto, The Hidden Messages in Water

“What is the relationship between love and gratitude? For an answer to this question, we can use water as a model. A water molecule consists of two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom, represented by H2O. If love and gratitude , like oxygen and hydrogen, were linked together in a ratio of 1 to 2, gratitude would be twice as large as love.”
― Masaru Emoto, The Hidden Messages in Water

“The vibrations created by irritation are equivalent to those of mercury, by anger to those of lead, and by sadness and sorrow to those of aluminum. In the same way, uncertainty is related to cadmium, despair to steel, and stress to zinc.”
― Masaru Emoto, The Hidden Messages in Water

“Love and gratitude This crystal is as perfect as can be. This indicates that love and gratitude are fundamental to the phenomenon of life in all of nature.”
― Masaru Emoto, The Hidden Messages in Water

“If you fill your heart with love and gratitude, you will find yourself surrounded by so much that you can love and that you can feel grateful for, and you can even get closer to enjoying the life of health and happiness that you seek. But what will happen if you emit signals of hate, dissatisfaction, and sadness? Then you will probably find yourself in a situation that makes you hateful, dissatisfied, and sad. The life you live and the world you live in are up to you.”
― Masaru Emoto, The Hidden Messages in Water

“Human beings are also vibrating, and each individual vibrates at a unique frequency. Each one of us has the sensory skills necessary to feel the vibrations of others.”
― Masaru Emoto, The Hidden Messages in Water

“... the gratitude vibration is more powerful and has a greater influence [than love]. Love tends to be a more active energy, the act of giving oneself unconditionally. By contrast, gratitude is a more passive energy, a feeling that results from having been given something--knowing that you have been given the gift of life and reaching out to receive it joyously with both hands.”
― Masaru Emoto, The Hidden Messages in Water

“People sometimes tell me that they’re afraid to pursue seeing in the spirit because they think seeing all the demonic will overwhelm them. The truth is that it’s much more terrifying to see how much God cares for us. It’s a love that changes everything it touches. You can never go back once you’ve seen it. You’ll forgive when you don’t want to, give up anger before you’re ready, and become friends with people you wouldn’t have wanted to sit next to. All inspired by the profound revelation of his unyielding love.”
― Blake Healy, The Veil

“God has the power to change us, the wisdom to guide us and the love to sustain us on our journey.”
― Cyndy Sherwood, Road Map to Healing

“is your choice to relinquish your burden or not. But you can’t finish your journey if you don’t get rid of the weight. You simply won’t be able to continue at some point.”
― Cyndy Sherwood, Road Map to Healing