Quotes

The price of a moral posture without personal risk: “It is hard to know, even in one's own case, whether a commitment that costs nothing has any substance. . . . Deploring the poverty of the common people in Asia and Africa is for most of us morally invigorating and at the same time agreeably inexpensive.” — Glenn Tinder

It is important to live life from the inside out, not the other way around. That is to say, live your own life, not simply imitating your heroes or other noble imagine. — Parker Palmer

Before you tell your life what you intend to do with it, listen for what it intends to do with you. — Parker Palmer

Vocation does not come from willfulness. It comes from listening. Of course, the voice we listen for is not “out there,” it is “in here,” calling me to fulfill the selfhood given me at birth by God. Rabbi Zusya, when he was an old man, said, “In the coming world, they will not ask me: ‘Why were you not Moses?’ They will ask me: ‘Why were you not Zusya?’” — Parker Palmer

There are some people who can receive a truth by no other way than to have their understanding shocked and insulted. — Carl Sandburg

Snuffy and his son Jughaid are sitting on a mountain ledge peering into a brilliant, starry sky. "Behold th’ bodacious cosmos, Judhaid!!” Snuffy says to his son. “Makes ya feel purty insignificant, don’t it?!” Jughaid replies, “Nope!!” “Fergot” Snuffy says, “yo’re parta that selfy-stem gen’ration, ain’t cha?!” — Snuffy Smith cartoon

Let us go forward quietly, forever making for the light, and lifting up our hearts in the knowledge that we are as others are (and that others are as we are), and that it is right to love one another in the best possible way – believing all things, hoping for all things, and enduring all things. . . . And let us not be too troubled by our weaknesses, for even he who has none, has one weakness, namely that he thinks he has none, and anyone who believes himself to be so perfect or wise would do well to become foolish all over again. — Vincent van Gogh

The one who sings prays twice. — Most often attributed to St. Augustine

God respects me when I work, but He loves me when I sing. — Rabindranath Tagore

The question for the singer is not, Do you have a voice? but, Do you have a song? — Don Hustad