Quotes of: Francis Keyword

We have the power to improve our work lives immeasurably through awareness, compassion, patience & ingenuity.

Real Happiness at Work: Meditations for Accomplishment, Achievement, and Peace

Each opportunity to interrupt the onslaught of thoughts and return to the object of meditation is, in fact, a moment of enlightenment

Real Happiness at Work: Meditations for Accomplishment, Achievement, and Peace

When we don’t allow setbacks to defeat us, they become opportunities for learning, acceptance, flexibility, and patience.

Real Happiness at Work: Meditations for Accomplishment, Achievement, and Peace

Death alone gives meaning to life, and you will never fully live until you know you must die. And make your peace with that knowledge.

The Raven Warrior

Among all the creatures of creation, the gods favor us: We are the only ones who can empathize with their problems.

Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives

There are two spiritual dangers in not owning a farm. One is the danger of supposing that breakfast comes from the grocery, and the other that heat comes from the furnace.

A Sand County Almanac

There are poor men out there. And rich ones. Rich men never wait for nothing, so why would they be good? Good men are poor, because they have to count on others' kindnesses.

Scarlet

She hated that she was still so desperate for a glimpse of him, but it had been this way for years.

The Secret Diaries of Miss Miranda Cheever

I doubt you would recognize an adventure of any sort if it came right up and bit you on the a--- Mother! I was going to say arm.

Seduction of a Proper Gentleman

It is a pure soul who can hold true the in­no­cence and time­less­ness of pas­sion in an­oth­er soul. Each un­veil­ing the great­est pieces of the oth­er, locked to­geth­er at the heart for eter­ni­ty

Saving Grace

The test of mountain-top experiences, of mysticism, of visions of God and of solitariness is when you are “in the soup” of actual circumstances.

Shade of His Hand

A generous donor (who had no doubt lived a life that imperiled his mortal soul) had granted [the Sisters] more than one hundred waterfront acres.

Summer Island

Vietnam...war...it did something to us. Or maybe not. Maybe the bad seeds were always in me, and war gave them a dark place in which to grow.

Summer Island

The gentleman had been an uncommonly affable fellow, but every time he counted to twenty (and he seemed to do so with strange frequency), he skipped the number twelve.

The Sum of All Kisses

If we were never depressed we should not be alive; it is the nature of a crystal never to be depressed.

My Utmost for His Highest: Traditional Updated Edition

Like blood out of a wound, a keening wail rose from the bottom of my heart and ripped through the graveyard. I lowered my face to Hadassah's shoulder and went quietly and thoroughly to pieces.

Magdalene

Narrow all your interests until your mind, heart, and body are focused on Jesus Christ.

My Utmost for His Highest

This isn't going to be pretty. Rules will be broken. Friendships will be tested. And huge risks will be taken. But they're small prices to pay for true love and freedom, right?

Monster High

Don't forget to pray today because God did not forget to wake you up this morning.

My Utmost for His Highest Journal

So. Tell me. What do you think? Which is better? To take action and perhaps make a fatal mistake - or to take no action and die slowly anyway?

The Map of Love

And so the very thing that should make Egypt strong - the richness and diversity of her culture - serves to divide her and make her weak.

The Map of Love