Quotes about Empowerment

We mend and renew the world by strengthening inside ourselves what we seek outside ourselves, and not by demanding it of others or trying to force it on others.

Just do it better yourself and don't waste any time criticizing others or the past! This, in fact, purifies your own commitment and motivation.

Trusting in God is not a passive dependency, a handing over of responsibility: "Okay, God, you can do it." Faith in God is primarily an active virtue. Faith does not necessarily mean an expectation that God will intervene. Faith is an end in itself. Faith is an active empowering of the other to be everything he or she can be for you.

The only free positions in this world are at the bottom and at the edges of things.

God seems ready and willing to wait for, and to empower, free will and a free "yes." Love only happens in the realm of freedom.

Jesus puts healed people back on themselves, never creating any kind of dependency or codependency on him that will keep them from their own empowerment. All people must learn to draw from their own Implanted Spirit, which is the only thing that will help them in the long run anyway. Jesus gives them the courage to trust their own "inner Christ"—and not just its outer manifestation in himself. Go reread the Gospels and see if that is not true!

We need to encounter the hero within and let him lead us on the adventure of our lives.

If you want to be important, serve others. And if you want to be at the top, then slave to help everyone else. The

Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we will ever do.

This realization that Someone is living in us and through us is exactly how we plug into a much larger mind and heart beyond our own.

Anne Wilson Schaef

we are product of our past but we don't have to be prisoners of it.