Quotes About Empowerment

Discipline is liberty, compassion is strength, goodness is courage

Faith that God has made us new, has made us his, and has made us able are essential before we will experience God's victory over compelling and compulsive sin.

Garrison explains why concreteness empowers illustrations and furthers understanding: "If I were to talk at length about my having been deeply moved by watching the setting of my son's broken arm, this would constitute a report of my feelings. But when I describe some factors that contributed to my mood, you are brought into the experience and feel with me. To re-create a moving situation is quite different from testifying to having been deeply moved.

It takes no special skill to see what is wrong with people, and to criticize them. But to see people robed in a righteousness not their own and to encourage them on this basis to be more of what they should be powerfully communicates the heart of Christ.

He raised her to her feet and looked into her teary eyes, speaking softly. "To be wanted and not lusted for. To be loved and not pitied. To be asked and not commanded." After passing a hand over her bedraggled hair, he slipped it into hers, touching their palms together. "Is that right?" As her cheeks flushed, a shy smile emerged. In contrast to her red face, her white teeth dazzled, but now her fangs were gone. "And to be believed, even after all my lies.

One of the best gifts that we have for the poor and the non-poor is the living word of God. We need to share it with them and let the living word speak for itself.

The poor are poor largely because they live in networks of relationships that do not work for their well-being. Their relationships with others are often oppressive and disempowering as a result of the non-poor "playing god" in the lives of the poor.

The worst bullies you will ever encounter in your life are your own thoughts.

If you cannot immediately change your undesirable situation, you can choose the practice of appreciation.

You do not have to do anything to defend yourself in life; just BE beautiful, and life will defend you.

Knowledge is that possession that no misfortune can destroy, no authority can revoke, and no enemy can control. This makes knowledge the greatest of all freedoms.

If you are competing with slaves, then you are a slave yourself.

Surrender is not a weakness, or state of inaction, but rather a powerful state of pure energy; the energy of becoming your true purpose.

When you are not free, you are not creating; you are being created.

All things are possible through invitation and love.

As free as you allow others to be, such freedom you create for yourself.

Command the space of your beingness – a space where you are allowed to grow into your true, unique nature.

Let the change begin with your choices this very moment.

Once you realize what you really are, you cannot be stopped.

The supreme lesson of any education should be to think for yourself and to be yourself; absent this attainment, education creates dangerous, stupefying conformity.

You reclaim your power by loving what you were once taught to hate.

Sometimes we are blessed with being able to choose the time, and the arena, and the manner of our revolution, but more usually we must do battle where we are standing." —Audre Lorde

besides love, independence of thought is the greatest gift an adult can give a child.

The power of one is above all things the power to believe in yourself, ofen well beyond any latent ability you may have previously demonstrated. The mind is the athlete, the body is simply the means it uses to run faster or longer, jump higher, shoot straighter, kick better, swim harder, hit further, or box better.