Quotes About Empowerment

The Holy Spirit's fullness, now being restored to God's people, will never again be taken from them.

Furthermore, when God chooses you to do something for Him, He knows you can do it. He never chooses you to do something that you are not capable of doing by His grace. Never run away from your calling out of fear that you will fail.

Give a man a fish and feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and feed him for a lifetime. Teach a man to cycle and he will realize fishing is stupid and boring.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

Healing means that our dignity is restored and we are able to move forward in our lives.

Forgiveness is the only way to heal ourselves and to be free from the past. Without forgiveness, we remain tethered to the person who harmed us. We are bound to the chains of bitterness, tied together, trapped. Until we can forgive the person who harmed us, that person will hold the keys to our happiness, that person will be our jailor. When we forgive, we take back control of our own fate and our feelings. We become our own liberator.

forgiveness is not a choice you make for someone else; it is a choice you make for yourself.

There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they're falling in.

The moment for which I had waited so long came and I folded my ballot paper and cast my vote. Wow! I shouted, 'Yippee!' It was giddy stuff. It was like falling in love. The sky looked blue and more beautiful. I saw the people in a new light. They were beautiful, they were transfigured. I too was transfigured. It was dreamlike.

Until women are deeply involved in opposing the violence in the world, we are not going to bring it to an end. All women must be equally at the forefront of the movements for social justice. And

When we oppress others, we end up oppressing ourselves. All

Forgiveness is truly the grace by which we enable another person to get up, and get up with dignity, to begin anew.

Any woman who doesn't have a little bit of whore in her is pretty much a dried up stick.

It's always better to know. It is. That's the great thing about being a detective. Information makes you stronger. And if it's bad news, it makes you even stronger.

Ye always carry your women wi ye into battle, Ian Og. They're the root of your strength, man.

Men go where they will, they do as they must; it is not a woman's part to bid them to stay, nor yet to reproach them for being what they are-or for not coming back.

You are beautiful," he whispered to me. "If you say so." "Do ye not believe me? Have I ever lied to you?" "That's not what I mean. I mean—if you say it, then it's true. You make it true.

Healing comes from the healed; not from the physician.

Let me be enough

It's only when ye ken ye can say no that it takes courage.

And you know bloody well that you mostly cant help them anyway; they've got to do it--or not--themselves.

Ye always carry your women wi' ye into battle, Ian Òg. They're the root of your strength, man.

I have lived through a fucking world war," I said, my voice low and venomous. "I have lost a child. I have lost two husbands. I have starved with an army, been beaten and wounded, been patronized, betrayed, imprisoned, and attacked. And I have fucking survived!" My voice was rising, but I was helpless to stop it. "And now should I be shattered because some wretched, pathetic excuses for men stuck their nasty little appendages between my legs and wiggled them?!

Aye, I ken fine how strong women are," he said quietly. "And you're strong enough for what must be done, m' annsachd—believe me.