Luci Shaw famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Disappointment often focuses on the failure of our own agenda rather than on God's long-term purposes for us, which may use stress and struggle as tools for strengthening our spiritual muscles.
-- Luci Shaw

#Spiritual #Disappointment #Stress
Whether we are poets or parents or teachers or artists or gardeners, we must start where we are and use what we have. In the process of creation and relationship, what seems mundane and trivial may show itself to be a holy, precious part of a pattern.
-- Luci Shaw

#Teacher #Artist #Parent
Nordenson describes wrestling with work as with a large force that wants to have its way with you, even as you want to have your way with it. This wrestling, sinewy and particular as its wrestler, enlarges us as we read our way into her life with its incisive insights and explorations. Can one wrestle meditatively? This author has learned the art and we are the benefactors.
-- Luci Shaw

#Art #Wrestling #Want
We have a 'now you see Him, now you don't' God. We have Himself clothed in visions, in dreams, in metaphors, in parables, in the poetry of the Bible, and in all the ordinariness of the lives we live.
-- Luci Shaw

#Dream #Vision #Invisible
Beauty is there to be noticed. Too often it is taken for granted because we are moving too fast to let it in and allow it to deliver its message in us. We need to pay attention. To show indifference to beauty is an insult to its Creator.
-- Luci Shaw

#Beauty #Moving #Taken
Faith today is not enough for tomorrow. It must be constantly renewed by a conscious act.
-- Luci Shaw

#Today #Tomorrow #Enough
Like all art, poems are only hints and guesses that draw our attention to something larger.
-- Luci Shaw

#Art #Attention #Hints
Being in a state of mystery seems to be my calling.
-- Luci Shaw

#Calling #Mystery #States
I took a wrong turn the other day. A mistake, but it led me to the shop where I found the very thing Iâ€™d been searching for.
-- Luci Shaw

#Mistake #Found #Shops

Since one cannot visually experience the presence of the Supersoul, He appears before us as a liberated devotee. Such a spiritual master is none other than Krishna himself.
In spiritual life, one must conduct one's whole life under the guidance of the guru. Only one who executes his spiritual life under the direction of the spiritual master can achieve the mercy of Krishna.
The highest summit of spiritual perfection is knowledge of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
First birth is from your parents, but real birth, real life, begins when one accepts a bona fide spiritual master and renders service unto him. Then the path is open for going back to home, back to Godhead, to live eternally in full knowledge and full bliss and in association with the Supreme Personality of Godhead Himself, Lord Krishna.
Love is what enables us to bridge the gap of disappointment when others don't live up to the expectations we have of them.
The wise expect nothing, hope for nothing, thus avoiding all disappointment and anxiety.
He stops in his tracks, face expressing major disappointment. "Wait - seriously? That's it? We don't get to do a stealthy tiptoe as we slip around back? No sneaking through a cracked window, or arguing over who gets to crawl through the dogie door to let the other one in?
When you're doing something you're passionate about, stress becomes a featurenot a bug.
The things that stress me out haven't changed. But I don't wanna lose anything. So I thought that at least I would change. I'm lucky...that I'm afraid of losing something.
Cash is available and we should use that in larger amounts, as is necessary, to solve the problems of the stress of this.

Luci Shaw famous quotes

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