Stephen Mitchell
Stephen Mitchell
Stephen Graham Mitchellis a British journalist who has been Head of News Programmes, BBC, since 2007 and Deputy Director, BBC News, since 2008. He announced his retirement without payment from the position of Head of BBC news programmes in December 2012 in the wake of the Pollard Report into the Jimmy Savile scandal...
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth14 July 1949
airline confidence hope prosper
I have every hope and confidence that the new airline will prosper in the future,
blessing firsts sometimes
What we are tempted to call a disaster is sometimes the first, painful stage of a blessing.
jesus rain believe
[Jesus] teaches that just as the sun gives light to both wicked and good, and the rain brings nourishment to righteous and unrighteous, God's compassion embraces all people. There are no pre-conditions for it, nothing we need to do first, nothing we have to believe. When we are ready to receive it, it is already there. And the more we live in its presence, the more effortlessly if flows through us, until we find that we no longer need external rules or Bibles or Messiahs.
sin duty
It is better to do your own duty badly than to perfectly do an others; when you do your duty, you are naturally free from sin.
jesus heart long
What is the gospel according to Jesus? Simply this: that the love we all long for in our innermost heart is already present, beyond longing.
mind traffic clear
If you listen to the traffic with a clear mind, without any concepts, it is not noisy, it is only what it is.
kindness self-esteem integrity
What may appear to be proud ungrateful and headstrong fron the outside may from the inside express an unshakable integrity of character. Pride, if it doesn't step over the line into arrogance, is simply an unprejudiced self-esteem. Ingratitude is the appropriate response to a kindness that has hooks on it. Headstrong is another word for trusting your own heart.
simple thinking mind
Whatever thought grips the mind at the time of death is the one which will propel it and decide for it the nature of its future birth. Thus if one wants to attain god after death, one has to think of him steadfastly... This is not as simple as it sounds, for at the time of death the mind automatically flies to the thought of an object (i.e. money, love) which has possessed it during its sojourn in the world. Thus one must think of god constantly.