Quotes about Empowerment

Dismiss whatever insults your own soul; And your very flesh shall be a great poem…

Let your barbaric yop be heard through the rooftops!

God never asks us to do anything we can do. He asks us to live a life which we can never live and to do a work which we can never do. Yet, by His grace, we are living it and doing it.

We still (sometimes) remember that we cannot be free if our minds and voices are controlled by someone else. But we have neglected to understand that we cannot be free if our food and its sources are controlled by someone else. The condition of the passive consumer of food is not a democratic condition. One reason to eat responsibly is to live free. (pg. 323, The Pleasures of Eating)

Learn to say no. It will be of more use to you than to be able to read Latin.

They say God made man, but Sam Colt made them equal.

I sat in that room and realized that you can cut off a finger, cut off a hand, even cut off a leg, but if you take a woman's breast, you are cutting more than just a body part.

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. I will not refuse to do the something I can do.

What about all that 'turn the other cheek' stuff?" Dad's eyes narrowed. "When someone's trying to control you, you come out swinging. And keep swinging. Bible never said be a doormat.

Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a host of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, fixing our eyes on Jesus.

For we alone are the keepers of the letters that set us free.

The remarkable thing is, we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day.