Thea Bowman famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I think the difference between me and some people is that I'm content to do my little bit. Sometimes people think they have to do big things in order to make change. But if each one would light a candle we'd have a tremendous light.
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God is present in everything. In the universe in creation, in me and all that happens to me, in my brothers and sisters, in the church - everywhere.
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I know that suffering gives us new perspectives and helps us to clarify our real value. I know that suffering has helped me to clarify my relationships ... Perhaps suffering stops us in our tracks and forces us to confront what is real within ourselves and in our environment.
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I know that God is using me in ways beyond my comprehension.
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I try to make sense of life. I try to keep myself open to people and to laughter and to love and to have faith.
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Part of my approach to my illness has been to say I want to choose life, I want to keep going, I want to live fully until I die.
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I find that when I am involved in the business of life, when I'm working with people, particularly with children, I feel better. A kind of strength and energy comes with that.
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God has given me the grace to see some of the seeds that I have sown bear good fruit, and I am so grateful.
-- Thea Bowman
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Faith is unflinching trust in something divine.
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Every science in a certain degree starts from faith, and, on the contrary, faith, which does not lead to science, is mistaken faith or superstition, but real, genuine faith it is not.
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Faith does not increase, nor does it decrease; because a diminution in it would be unbelief.
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The first thing that a person finds in life and the last to which he holds out his hand, and the most precious that he possess, even if he does not realize it, is family life.
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Charity may be a very short word, but with its tremendous meaning of pure love, it sums up man's entire relation to God and to his neighbor.
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One should not be happy or distressed over desirables and undesirables, knowing that such feelings are just created by the mind.
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Unconditional love is an illogical notion, but such a great and powerful one.
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Remember you love writing. It wouldn’t be worth it if you didn’t. If the love fades, do what you need to and get it back,
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We must remember that knowledge of one’s own deep nature is also simultaneously knowledge of human nature in general.
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Our strength lies in our intensive attacks and our barbarity...After all, who today remembers the genocide of the Armenians?
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