Quotes about Empowerment
This Bible is for the government of the people, by the people and for the people.
— John Wycliffe
There is no limit to the good you may do.
— Ellen White
The leaves of the tree of life are proffered you. They are sweeter than honey and the honeycomb. Take them, eat them, digest them, and your faintheartedness will pass away.
— Ellen White
Encourage Independent Thinking—While the children and youth gain a knowledge of facts from teachers and textbooks, let them learn to draw lessons and discern truth for themselves.
— Ellen White
The Lord Jesus loves His people, and when they put their trust in Him, depending wholly upon Him, He strengthens them. He will live through them, giving them the inspiration of His sanctifying Spirit, imparting to the soul a vital transfusion of Himself.—Sabbath School Worker, February 1, 1896.
— Ellen White
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