"Quiet is a blessed gift. In this frantic world how we must cherish every moment of it, and carve it out for ourselves every chance we get."

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Source : Anne Ortlund (1986). “Disciplines of the Beautiful Woman”, W Publishing Group

Anne Ortlund

#Blessed Quotes #World Quotes #Chance Quotes

“It is a light thing for whoever keeps his foot outside trouble to advise and counsel him that suffers.”
“Conspiracy theory is the ultimate refuge of the powerless. If you cannot change your own life, it must be that some greater force controls the world.”
“Those who have courage and faith shall never perish in misery”
“When we stop fighting with ourselves, we aren't creating anymore conflict in our mind. Then our mind can for the first time relax and be still. Then for the first time our consciousness can become whole and unfragmented. Then total attention can be given to all of our thoughts and feelings. And then there will be found a gentleness and a goodness in us that can embrace all that is been given in the world. Then a deep love for everything will be the result of this deep attention. For this total attention, this soft and pure consciousness that we are, is nothing but Love itself.”
“I don't really look at myself as a role model. And I just am the way I am and if people want to look up to me, they do. By no means do I like to give a negative image either.”
“Let us draw from the crib the joy and deep peace that Jesus comes to bring to the world.”
“No organization engaged in any specific field of work ever invents any important developers in that field, or adopts any important development in that field until forced to do so by outside competition.”
“The biggest challenge in working together is simply listening.”

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