Inspiring Quotes

INSPIRING QUOTES

This page is a collection of Wisdom quotes from a wide variety of sources. Choose a quote that will inspire you as you seek to manifest greater wholeness in one of these areas in your life.
This list belongs to all of us so please email us any favorite quotes or verses you would like us to add!

Spirituality

“Be still and know that I am God.” Psalm 46:10

“Do not worry about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.” Philippians 4:6-7

“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, but spiritual beings having a human experience.” Teilhard de Chardin

“The two best prayers I know are, Help me, help me, help me’ and, ‘Thank you, thank you, thank you.’ Anne Lamott, author

“Faith is the act of a ?nite being who is grasped by, and turned to, the in?nite.” Paul Tillich, theologian and author

Rest-Play

“You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.” Plato

“Remember the sabbath day, and keep it holy. For six days you shall labour and do all your work. But the seventh day is a sabbath to the Lord your God; you shall not do any work.” Exodus 20:8

“Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.” Miles Davis, Jazz Trumpeter

“And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have ample goods laid up for many years; relax,eat, drink, be merry.” Luke 12:19

“Don’t play the saxophone. Let it play you.” Charlie Parker, jazz saxophonist “A cheerful heart is a good medicine.” Proverbs 17:22

“A cheerful heart is a good medicine.” Proverbs 17:22

Handling Emotions

“Be angry but do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger. Put away from you all bitterness and wrath and anger and wrangling and slander, together with all malice, and be kind to one another.” Ephesians 4:26, 31

“The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.” Jim Rohn, author.

“For everything there is a season ... a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance.” Ecclesiastes 3

“When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.” Dale Carnegie

Family-Friends

“Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrong doing, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.” 1 Corinthians 13:4-7

“Promise me you will always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem and smarter than you think.” Chirstopher Robin to Winnie the Pooh, A.A. Milne

“To the world you may be just one person, but to one person, you may be the world.” Brandi Snyder

“Beloved, let us love one another, because love is from God; everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, for God is love... Beloved, since God loved us so much, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God lives in us, and his love is perfected in us. God is love, and those who abide in love abide in God, and God abides in them.” 1 John 4

“If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? If you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? If you lend to those from whom you hope to receive, what credit is that to you? But love your enemies, do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return.” Luke 6:32

Care for the Body

“Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, which you have from God, and that you are not your own? For you were bought with a price; therefore glorify God in your body.” 1 Corinthians 6:19-20

“Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler, and whoever is led astray by it is not wise.” Proverbs 20:1

“We do not stop exercising because we grow old – we grow old because we stop exercising.” Kenneth Cooper, M.D.

“Don’t dig your grave with your knife and fork.” English proverb

Stress Resiliency

“Come to me all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.” Matthew 11:28

“Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.” Psalm 23:4

“Stress is nothing more than a socially acceptable form of mental illness.” Richard Carlson, author

“Is everything as urgent as your stress would imply?” Carrie Latet, poet

“No one can get inner peace by pouncing on it.” Henry

Work-School-Service

“ ... be transformed by the renewing of your minds.” Romans 12:2

“Let everyone be sure that he is doing his very best, for then he will have the personal satisfaction of work well done, and won’t need to compare himself with someone else.” Living Bible, Galations 6:4

“People for the sake of getting a living, forget to live.” Margaret Fuller, author

“Three Rules of Work: Out of clutter ?nd simplicity; from discord ?nd harmony; in the middle of dif?culty lies opportunity.” Albert Einstein

Organization

“The plans of the diligent lead surely to plenty, but those of everyone who is hasty, surely to poverty.” Proverbs 21:5

“Failing to plan, means planning to fail.”

“A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow.”

“For which of you, intending to build a tower, does not ?rst sit down and estimate the cost, to see whether he has enough to complete it? Otherwise, when he has laid a foundation and is not able to ?nish, all who see it will begin to ridicule him, saying, ‘This fellow began to build and was not able to ?nish.’” Luke 14: 28-30

“Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.” Immanuel Kant

“The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.” Hans Hoffman, 20th century abstract painter