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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.
When God gave you to me he never said that you were mine, that I could keep you always--only borrowed read more
When God gave you to me he never said that you were mine, that I could keep you always--only borrowed for a time. Now, He's called you home, I'm sad and I shed tears. Yet, I'm glad He loaned you to me and we had these many years.
Man is, and always has been, a maker of gods. It has been the most serious and significant occupation of read more
Man is, and always has been, a maker of gods. It has been the most serious and significant occupation of his sojourn in the world.
O Rock of Israel, Rock of Salvation, Rock struck and cleft for
me, let those two streams of blood read more
O Rock of Israel, Rock of Salvation, Rock struck and cleft for
me, let those two streams of blood and water which once gushed
out of thy side . . . bring down with them salvation and holiness
into my soul.
God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.
God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.
God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.
God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.
God's Wisdom and God's Goodness!--Ah, but fools
Mis-define thee, till God knows them no more.
Wisdom and read more
God's Wisdom and God's Goodness!--Ah, but fools
Mis-define thee, till God knows them no more.
Wisdom and goodness they are God!--what schools
Have yet so much as heard this simpler lore.
This no Saint preaches, and this no Church rules:
'Tis in the desert, now and heretofore.
Seems like God don't see fit to give the black man nothing but dreams - but He did give us read more
Seems like God don't see fit to give the black man nothing but dreams - but He did give us children to make them dreams seem worthwhile.
God is like a skilful Geometrician.
God is like a skilful Geometrician.
