"I think one of my father's great legacies is the people that he inspired and the generation that he inspired transformed America through civil rights, women's rights, equal justice, and they've passed that on to their children and grandchildren."

-- Caroline Kennedy

#Children Quotes #Father Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Turn off your mind, relax, and float downstream.”
“For those who say I can't impose my morality on others, I say just watch me.”
“If we haven't learned to be worshipers it doesn't really matter how well we do anything else. Worship changes us or it has not been worship. To stand before the Holy One of eternity is to change. Worship begins in holy expectancy, it ends in holy obedience.”

Source : Richard J. Foster (1995*). “Richard Foster's treasury of Christian discipline”, Jossey-Bass
“We are less when we don't include everyone.”
“Do not use your energy except for a cause more noble than yourself. Such a cause cannot be found except in Almighty God Himself: to preach the truth, to defend womanhood, to repel humiliation which your Creator has not imposed upon you, to help the oppressed. Anyone who uses his energy for the sake of the vanities of the world is like someone who exchanges gemstones for gravel. There is no nobility in anyone who lacks faith. The wise man knows that the only fitting price for his soul is a place in Paradise...”
“If you're not sure how you feel about same-sex marriage, go and meet some of the families and see what they're looking for. Once you take it out of the caricature of what gay people are and what gay marriage is, and put it in the reality of family and what these folks are fighting for, it's really amazing.”
“Nearly all the Brazilian supporters are wearing yellow shirts - it's a fabulous kaleidoscope of colour.”

Source : Quoted in Motson's National Obsession (2004).
“In order to please others, we loose our hold on our life's purpose.”

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