Quotes about Empowerment

Jealousy says, "Compete with each other." Envy says, "Destroy each other." Empathy says, "Help each other." Love says, "Empower each other.

One who does not deserve your tears does not deserve your heart.

Accept yourself, love yourself, and keep moving forward.

Joy doubles your faith, strength triples your might, and love quadruples your power.

You become strong by lifting others up, not pulling them down.

When people are kept in abject poverty and illiteracy while others grow rich and "develop their personalities" at the former's expense we speak of oppression; when structures and persons that perpetuate powerlessness are replaced by structures that allow people to stand on their own feet and have their own voice, we speak of liberation.2 Both

To regard anyone except yourself as responsible for your judgment is to be a slave, not a free man. It

People generally fall into one of three groups: the few who make things happen, the many who watch things happen, and the overwhelming majority who have no notion of what happens. Every person is either a creator of fact or a creature of circumstance. He either puts color into his environment, or, like a chameleon, takes color from his environment.

You must decide if you are going to rob the world or bless it with the rich, valuable, potent, untapped resources locked away within you.

God did not create woman from man's head, that he should command her, nor from his feet, that she should be his slave, but rather from his side, that she should be near his heart.

God's love sets us free from the need to seek approval. Knowing that we are loved by God, accepted by God, approved by God, and that we are new creations in Christ empowers us to reject self-rejection and embrace a healthy self-love. Being secure in God's love for us, our love for Him, and our love for ourselves, prepares us to fulfill the second greatest commandment: To love our neighbor as ourselves.

When we as God's children realize that His grace is sufficient for every situation, at that point we are no longer victims. We are free to rise above and move on beyond whatever may have been done to us, to release those who have wronged us, and to become instruments of grace, reconciliation, and redemption in the lives of other hurting people—even in the lives of our offenders.