Quotes on Our Lives

If Jesus is to become the center of our life, we need to spend time in His presence, before the Tabernacle.

The lessons we learn from patience will cultivate our character, lift our lives, and heighten our happiness.

We must get rid of the idea of fulfilling what people expect us to do, and start to do what we expect from our lives.

Focusing on ourselves will never reveal our life's purpose.

Fear unchecked grows exponentially. Love poured forth has the power to remove it. Thus is the power of God in our lives

We can't choose our lives, but we can DECIDE what to do with the joys or griefs we're given.

We may be certain that whatever God has made prominent in His Word, He intended to be conspicuous in our lives.

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

Apart from Jesus Christ, we do not know what is our life, nor our death, nor God, nor ourselves.

When we clear the physical clutter from our lives, we literally make way for inspiration and 'good, orderly direction' to enter.

People always complain that they can't do this and they can't do that." _x000D_ _x000D_ "If we look at our lives and concentrate on things that we don't have or wish to have, that doesn't change the circumstances. The truth is that we have to focus on what we have and make the best out of it.

A grateful heart ... comes through expressing gratitude to our Heavenly Father for His blessings and to those around us for all that they bring into our lives.

We spend our lives trying to unlock the mystery of the universe, but there was a Turkish prisoner, Bahá’u’lláh, in Akka, Palestine who had the Key.

Through constant familiarity, we can definitely establish new behavior patterns, using our tendency to form habits to our advantage. If we make a steady effort, I think we can overcome any form of negative conditioning and make positive changes in our lives. But we need to remember that genuine change doesn't happen overnight.

The very purpose of our life is happiness, which is sustained by hope. We have no guarantee about the future, but we exist in the hope of something better. Hope means keeping going, thinking, ‘I can do this.’ It brings inner strength, self-confidence , the ability to do what you do honestly, truthfully and transparently.

If our mind is in conflict, not balanced with our body and with the needs of the soul, then there is a fundamental disunity in our life. Only if we have unity within ourselves, we can create unity in the world around us. You can't give something you don't have, even if you have all good intentions

Each encounter with Jesus changes our life.

I believe that the horrifying deterioration in the ethical conduct of people today stems from the mechanization and dehumanization of our lives. A disastrous by-product of the development of the scientific and technical mentality. We are guilty. Man grows cold faster than the planet he inhabits.

We have within us, a power that is greater than anything we shall ever contact in the outer, a power that can overcome every obstacle in our life and set us safe, satisfied and at peace, healed and prosperous, in a new light, and in a new life.

Word-work is sublime... because it is generative; it makes meaning that secures our difference, our human difference-the way in which we are like no other life. We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.

Each person's life is like a mandala - a vast, limitless circle. We stand in the center of our own circle, and everything we see, hear and think forms the mandala of our life ... everything that shows up in your mandala is a vehicle for your awakening.