Quotes about Empowerment
You are responsible for the ability which God has given you.
— Ellen White
For knitting composed the mind; knitting served the necessary means of evasion; knitting constituted not only an escape, but a tangible protection, from husbands.
— Ellen Glasgow
We don't ask you to believe in our ability to bring change, rather, we ask you to believe in yours.
— Barack Obama
We cannot live in a world that is interpreted for us by others. An interpreted world is not a hope. Part of the terror is to take back our own listening. To use our own voice. To see our own light. —Hildegard of Bingen
— Barbara Brown Taylor
Salvation happens every time someone with a key uses it to open a door he could lock instead.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
If Jesus meant for his followers to rule the world, then why did he teach them to wash feet?
— Barbara Brown Taylor
The meaning we give to what happens in our lives is our final, inviolable freedom.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
If you can forgive the person you were, accept the person you are, and believe in the person you will become, you are headed for joy. So celebrate your life.
— Barbara Johnson
In a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is make things as right as we can.
— Barbara Kingsolver
That's one thing I love about Raven, is that she's always rebuilding herself to be better and stronger.
— Lindsey Morgan
I want people who have received a diagnosis of Hepatitis C to know that they didn't just receive a death sentence. They do have options, even if the person who gave them their diagnosis isn't aware of all of them. The path they choose doesn't have to be one of desperation.
— Melody Beattie
I have been a woman for 46 years and I only recently realized I can't change it and I like it.
— Isabel Allende