Home » Inspiration (Page 33)
Category Archives: Inspiration
Sunday Inspiration: Silence
What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor but the silence of the bystander.
—Elie Wiesel
Sunday Inspiration: Good Trouble
Do not get lost in a sea of despair. Do not become bitter or hostile. Be hopeful, be optimistic. Never ever be afraid to make some noise and get in good trouble, necessary trouble. We will find a way to make a way out of no way.
—John Lewis
Sunday Inspiration: The World
Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don’t be afraid.
—Frederick Buechner
Sunday Inspiration: Responsibility
We live in a world in which we need to share responsibility. It’s easy to say it’s not my child, not my community, not my world, not my problem. Then there are those who see the need and respond. I consider those people my heroes.
—Fred Rogers
Sunday Inspiration: The Peace of Wild Things
When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
or grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
—Wendell Berry
Sunday Inspiration: The Right Day
There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done. One is called yesterday and the other is called tomorrow. Today is the right day to love, believe, do, and mostly live.
—Lhamo Thondup, the 14th Dalai Lama
Sunday Inspiration: Dreams
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
—Eleanor Roosevelt
Sunday Inspiration: The Real Questions
Did I offer peace today? Did I bring a smile to someone’s face? Did I say words of healing? Did I let go of my anger and resentment? Did I forgive? Did I love? These are the real questions.
—Henri Nouwen
Sunday Inspiration: Good and Evil
When evil men plot, good men must plan. When evil men burn and bomb, good men must build and bind. When evil men shout ugly words of hatred, good men must commit themselves to the glories of love.
—Martin Luther King Jr.
Sunday Inspiration: Gratitude
Absence of gratitude is the mark of the narrow uneducated mind. It bespeaks a lack of knowledge and the ignorance of self-sufficiency… Where there is appreciation, there is courtesy, there is concern for the rights and property of others. Without appreciation there is arrogance and evil.
—Gordon B. Hinckley
Darrell J. Pursiful 