"God created you with special talents for a purpose, and sometimes those we love most don't understand that. Don't let the doubts of others ring louder than God's whispers to your spirit. Sometimes God's whispers are harder to hear, but they're to be trusted the most."

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Source : FaceBook post by Tricia Goyer from Dec 30, 2013

Tricia Goyer

#Doubt Quotes #Special Quotes #Purpose Quotes

“I've never had a sustained period of medication for mental illness when I've not been on other drugs as well. It's just not something that I particularly feel I need. I know that I have dramatically changing moods, and I know sometimes I feel really depressed, but I think that's just life. I don't think of it as, "Ah, this is mental illness," more as, "Today, life makes me feel very sad." I know I also get unnaturally high levels of energy and quickness of thought, but I'm able to utilize that.”
“Things that are complex are not useful, Things that are useful are simple.”
“The children are always the chief victims of social chaos.”
“All men look at Dr. Ruth and wonder how she has gained all that sexual experience.”
“The biggest lesson we have to give our children is truth....”
“Unfortunately, now in boxing people are only allowed to punch. In Judo, people are only allowed to throw. I do not despise these kinds of martial arts. What I mean is, we now find rigid forms which create differences among clans, and the world of martial art is shattered as a result.”
“The only stuff we looked at were incidents for which there are a paper trail ... (and) everything we looked up was full of lies. (Winfrey said) the belief this book is changing the lives of people trumps the fact that maybe the story is a fake. You would expect somebody in her position would take the ethical stand.”
“Gratitude takes nothing for granted, is never unresponsive, is constantly awakening to new wonder.”

Source : Thomas Merton (2011). “Thoughts In Solitude”, p.48, Macmillan

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