Quotes about Opportunities

Do not make an excuse that you have not opportunities to do anything for the glory of God, for the interest of the Redeemer's kingdom, and for the spiritual benefit of your neighbors. If your heart is full of love, it will find vent; you will find or make ways enough to express your love in deeds. When a fountain abounds in water it will send forth streams.

It's like this. Father Time keeps pitching the years at us. We swing and miss at a few. We hit a few out of the park. We try not to take any called strikes.

To the student I would say, "Life is principally multiple choice, but at the end there's a tough essay question."

I heard someone once say that the years from fifteen to nineteen are the best years in a girl's life.

Loneliness makes us more capable of true intimacy if ever better opportunities do come along. We might be isolated for now, but we'll be capable of far closer, more interesting bonds with anyone we do eventually locate. 

In trying to be strong for them, I had cheated them out of opportunities to strengthen me. Guilt overwhelmed me, because I could-at last-see their gifts to me. The shame flowed all over me, and I began to cry. This is their ministry, I thought, and I've been spoiling it. I felt such intense shame over not letting them help.

We all have life-defining moments. They are like open-book tests, but we don't know we have been examined until it is over.

Don't run from lessons; they are little packages of treasure that have been given to us. As we learn from them, our lives change for the better.

I would counsel people to go to college, because it's one of the best times in your life in terms of who you meet and develop a broad set of intellectual skills.

God has called each one of us to embrace life, not merely to endure it.

Life hands us opportunities at every turn to get over ourselves, to get outside ourselves, to wake up from our own bad dreams and realize that really lovely things are happening all the time.

The reason most of us do not see opportunities to serve is that we are continually thinking about ourselves instead of others.