Quotes about Empowerment

Do your little bit of good where you are; it is those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they're falling in.

To make a start, it should give away all its property to those in need. The clergy must live solely on the free-will offerings of their congregations, or possibly engage in some secular calling. The church must share in the secular problems of ordinary human life, not dominating, but helping and serving.

How impossible, how utterly absurd it would be for the disciples-- these disciples, such men as these!--to try and become the light of the world! No, they are already the light, and the call has made them so.

May we be enabled to say "No" to sin and "Yes" to the sinner.

Has the community served to make individuals free, strong, and mature, or has it made them insecure and dependent? Has it taken them by the hand for a while so that they would learn again to walk by themselves, or has it made them anxious and unsure?

Jesus does not tell us what we ought to do but cannot; he tells us what God has given us and promises still to give.

We are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice, we are to drive a spoke into the wheel itself.

Everyone, no matter her or his stage in life, has the right to feel beautiful.

I say, enhance what others might deem less than wow and make that your beauty mark.

You're only poor if you choose to be. Meaning: you can be rich in spirit, you can be rich in thought, you can be rich in talent and you can be rich in all those wonderful things.

The soul knows everything. Be who you are and your life will transform forever.