QUOTES FOR YEAR 7 RaVE

Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love Miguel Ruiz

Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness and drama. With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life Miguel Ruiz

Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.

Miguel Ruiz

Knock, And He'll open the doorVanish, And He'll make you shine like the sunFall, And He'll raise you to the heavensBecome nothing, And He'll turn you into everything.”

Rumi

Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality. Carl Sagan

The greatest disease in the West today is not TB or leprosy; it is being unwanted, unloved, and uncared for. Mother Teresa

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter. E.E. Cummings

The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.” ― Anaïs Nin

Forgive the past. It is over. Learn from it and let go. People are constantly changing and growing. Do not cling to a limited, disconnected, negative image of a person in the past. See that person now. Your relationship is always alive and changing.” ― Brian L. Weiss

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.Where there is hatred, let me sow love,Where there is injury, pardon;Where there is doubt, faith;Where there is despair, hope;Where there is darkness, light;And where there is sadness, joy. St Francis of Assisi

When you do what you fear most, then you can do anything.” ― Stephen Richards

How hurtful it can be to deny one's true self and live a life of lies just to appease others.” ― June Ahern

One of the most spiritual things you can do is embrace your humanity. Connect with those around you today. Say, "I love you", "I'm sorry", "I appreciate you", "I'm proud of you"...whatever you're feeling Steve Maraboli

A sacrifice to be real must cost, must hurt, and must empty ourselves. Give yourself fully to God. He will use you to accomplish great things on the condition that you believe much more in his love than in your weakness.” ― Mother Teresa

What you are is God's gift to you, what you become is your gift to God.” ― Hans Urs von Balthasar

A quiet conscience makes one strong!” ― Anne Frank,

I once listened to an Indian on television say that God was in the wind and the water, and I wondered at how beautiful that was because it meant you could swim in Him or have Him brush your face in a breeze.” ― Donald Miller

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” ― Oscar Wilde

Be the change that you wish to see in the world.” ― Mahatma Gandhi

Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.” ― Martin Luther King Jr

Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.” ― Bil Keane

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.” ― Elie Wiesel

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.” ― Thomas Edison

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.” ― Helen Keller

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” ― Winston Churchill

You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one.” ― John Lennon

Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car.” ― Garrison Keillor

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.” ― Albert Einstein

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.” ― C.S. Lewis

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.” ― Mahatma Gandhi

I think if I've learned anything about friendship, it's to hang in, stay connected, fight for them, and let them fight for you. Don't walk away, don't be distracted, don't be too busy or tired, don't take them for granted. Friends are part of the glue that holds life and faith together. Powerful stuff.” ― Jon Katz

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien,

And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love. Paul of Tarsus

A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.” ― Elbert Hubbard

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.” ― William Shakespeare,

But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you

Jesus Christ