Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rob Bell

God gives us what we want. For people who want nothing to do with peace, joy, reconciliation and peace... God will give you what you want. I see people make unbelievably destructive choices.

Rob Bell

For many, 'desire' is a bad word, something we're supposed to 'give up for God.' That kind of thinking can be really destructive because it teaches people to deny their hearts, their true selves.

Richard Roeper

You're not allowed to give yourself a nickname. This holds true in life as well as in poker.

Richard Rohr

If God continues to give me health and a sane mind and verbal ability, I want to teach.

Richard Krajicek

Hewitt is such a fighter on the court; he never gives up. They all have qualities to beat him.

Tullian Tchividjian

The ironic thing about legalism is that it not only doesn't make people work harder, it makes them give up. Moralism doesn't produce morality; rather, it produces immorality.

Tullian Tchividjian

Grace is love that seeks you out when you have nothing to give in return. Grace is love coming at you that has nothing to do with you. Grace is being loved when you are unlovable....

Tupac Shakur

I can't give up. It's a rap thang. And I ain't goin back to the crack game.

Tupac Shakur

if they take half the buildings that they use to praise god and give it to the motherfuckers who need god we'd be 'aight

Tamora Pierce

What happens to each of my female heroes, certainly, is they find something bigger than themselves that they are honored to serve. It's not giving up your family.

Tammy Bruce

Remember, social progress only happens when those in society's privileged classes choose to give up their status.

Tamara Mellon

Direct to consumer really gives you control of your business completely.

Tacitus

More faults are often committed while we are trying to oblige than while we are giving offense.

Sylvia Mathews Burwell

When you give the American people the tools to make the right choices for themselves, they're going to do that.

Sylvia Plath

How we need another soul to cling to, another body to keep us warm. To rest and trust; to give your soul in confidence: I need this, I need someone to pour myself into.

Swami Vivekananda

Tremendous purity, tremendous renunciation, is the one secret of spirituality. “Neither through wealth, nor through progeny, but through renunciation alone is immortality to be reached,” say the Vedas. “Sell all that thou hast and give to poor, and follow me,” says the Christ. So all great saints and prophets have expressed it, and have carried it out in their lives. How can great spirituality come without renunciation?

Swami Vivekananda

Life is short, and therefore, one thing being certain, death, let us take up a great ideal, and give up the whole life to it. For what is the value of life, this vegetating little low life of man? Subordinating it to one high ideal is the only value that life has.

Swami Vivekananda

The weak, the fearful, the ignorant will never reach the Atman. You cannot undo what you have done; the effect must come. Face it, but be careful never to do the same thing again. Give up the burden of all deeds to God. Give all, both good and bad. God helps those who do not help themselves.

Swami Vivekananda

We must become free. We are free; the work is to know it. We must give up all slavery, all bondage of whatever kind. We must not only give up our bondage to earth and everything and everybody on earth, but also to all ideas of heaven and happiness.

Swami Vivekananda

The world is ready to give up its secrets if we only know how to knock, how to give it the necessary blow. The strength and force of the blow come through concentration.

Swami Vivekananda

We must always remember that God is Love. "A fool indeed is he who, living on the banks of the Ganga, seeks to dig a little well for water. A fool indeed is the man who, living near a mine of diamonds, spends his life in searching for beads of glass." God is that mine of diamonds. We are fools indeed to give up God for legends of ghosts or flying hobgoblins. It is a disease, a morbid desire.

Rosalind Wiseman

Being a parent does not give you an excuse for bad manners.

Rollo May

A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence.

Rumi

Give your life to the one who already owns your breath and your moments.

Rumi

Before death takes away what you are given, give away what there is to give.

Rumi

No better love than love with no objective, no more satisfying work than work with no purpose. If you could give up tricks and cleverness, that would be the cleverest trick!

Rumi

Dancing is when you rise above both worlds, tearing your heart to pieces & giving up your soul

Rumi

There is a force within that gives you life. Seek that.

Tom Peters

Give a lot, expect a lot, and if you don't get it, prune.

Tom Robbins

The trickster's function is to break taboos, create mischief, stir things up. In the end, the trickster gives people what they really want, some sort of freedom.

Tom Robbins

I don't want to give the impression that I hold daily conversations with my household appliances, although my toaster is as old as Drew Barrymore and almost as talented.

Tom Robbins

To live fully, one must be free, but to be free one must give up security. Therefore, to live one must be ready to die. How's that for a paradox?

Tom Lantos

The Lord gave us Ten Commandments, but the bill before the House today gives us 39.