Wisdom Quote by Kate Rose — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“What I am trying to say is that insofar as religion and many other beliefs are concerned, my mind no longer possesses the power to imprison me; any punishment which I perceive to be doled out by God, is moreover the result of my own doing.”

“The wise person is there not to be walked over but to stand up for the actual truth, to call the other person out when need be, if they are hiding from some hard reality. “Receptivity without confrontation leads to a bland neutrality that serves nobody,” the theologian Henri Nouwen wrote. “Confrontation without receptivity leads to an oppressive aggression which hurts everybody.”

“Never underestimate your power to change yourself; never overestimate your power to change others.”

“You are not alone in your ache. The ocean knows. The mountains know. So do we.”

“Risk sweetens enterprise,’ he answered, ‘and wit can conquer it.”

“Arrogance begins where common sense retreats”

“There is a ground. A knowing, below the feeling, that this day — this particular, unrepeatable, never-to-come-again arrangement of hours — has been given. Not happened. Given. And that the One who gave it is present in every hour of it, available in every moment, closer than the heartbeat.”