Quotes of: Our-planet Keyword

We don't protect our young, and we tolerate predators of our own species.

Andrew Vachss

If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

Luther Burbank

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.

Thornton Wilder

We didn't actually overspend our budget. The allocation simply fell short of our expenditure.

Love

We notice our evolution when we realize that sweeping our problems under the rug is useless.

Life

One of the characteristic problems of our time is how to close this gap between capabilities and foresight.

Life

Our beliefs about the sources of joy are frequently experienced as colored imaginations that captivate our hearts.

Love

This solution may not appeal to our human pride, but the problem is that our human pride in itself is sinful.

Walter Lang

People like me write because otherwise we are pretty inarticulate. Our articulation is our writing.

William Trevor

In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.

Audre Lorde

I did not become president to be popular. To work, to lead, to protect and preserve our country, our people, that is why I became president.

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

All white-collar work is project work. The single salient fact that touches all of our lives is that work is being reinvented.

Tom Peters

As in the war of 1941-45, our victory and our survival depend on how and where we attack.

James Forrestal

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By becoming aware of God’s Spirit, by slowing down and paying attention to the tastes and sounds and smells of the food we make and eat, we infuse our meals—and by extension our hearts—with a sense of awe, a depth of prayer that cannot help but...

Cravings: A Catholic Wrestles with Food, Self-Image, and God

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Contemplative Prayer

Day in and day out we learn to train and grow as Guardians. We do as we're told and follow the rules. We all work hard. Now it's our turn to watch some demons tremble in fear! It's our turn to watch the hunters become the hunted. Who's ready to see s...

Cursed

This gospel that we must encourage our counselees to appropriate is not just a collection of doctoral truth or personal benefits. It is not a magical buzzword that must being dropped incessantly in our conversation in counseling. It is all about the ...

Christ-Centered Biblical Counseling: Changing Lives with God's Changeless Truth

What are we going to do when we get into the temple, anyway? Are we going to fight our way through the Necromancers on our own?" "No, we're going to find a way to let our friends in, and we'll let fight while we stand by and look smug." "I like that ...

Death Bringer

Except for hydrogen, all the atoms that make each of us up—the iron in our blood, the calcium in our bones, the carbon in our brains—were manufactured in red giant stars thousands of light-years away in space and billions of years ago in time. We...

The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

Does not the Old Testament promise that God will prosper His people? Indeed! God increases our yield so that by giving we can prove that our yield is not our god. God does not prosper a man’s business so he can move from a Ford to a Cadillac. God p...

Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist