Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It read more

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us most. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and famous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in all of us. And when we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of read more

Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God.

If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.

If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.

The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.

The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.

God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages.

God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages.

I know God won't give me anything I can't handle;I just wish he didn't trust me so much.

I know God won't give me anything I can't handle;I just wish he didn't trust me so much.

In the faces of men and women I see God.

In the faces of men and women I see God.

I don\'t stand for the black man\'s side, I don\' t stand for the white man\'s side. I stand for read more

I don\'t stand for the black man\'s side, I don\' t stand for the white man\'s side. I stand for God\'s side.

It never frightened a Puritan when you bade him stand still and
listen to the speech of God. His read more

It never frightened a Puritan when you bade him stand still and
listen to the speech of God. His closet and his church were full
of the reverberations of the awful, gracious, beautiful voice for
which he listened.