Quotes about Enrichment
It may be a procession of faithful failures that enriches the soil of godly success. Faithful actions are not religious acts. They are not even necessary actions undertaken by people of faith. Faithful actions, whether they are marked by success or they end in failure, are actions that are compelled by goodness.
— Desmond Tutu
The grace of Christ in the soul is developing traits of character that are the opposite of selfishness—traits that will refine, ennoble, and enrich the life.
— Ellen White
Spend time with people who enrich your mind, nourish your heart, and illuminate your soul.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Expand your mind. Nurture your heart. Develop your body. Cultivate your soul.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
All our good is more apparently from God, because we are first naked and wholly without any good, and afterwards enrich with all good.
— Jonathan Edwards
All our good is apparently from God, because we are first naked and holy without any good, and afterwards enriched with all good.
— Jonathan Edwards
The obligation falls upon us to foster in ourselves the sensibilities that modernity has suppressed or even denigrated. ... Without awe, our lives are impoverished, our society decays.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
Time lost is time when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suffering.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Those sentimental radio hits, with their artificial naivete and empty crudities, are the pitiful remains and the maximum that people will tolerate by way of mental effort; it's a ghastly desolation and impoverishmment. By contrast, we can be very glad when something affects us deeply, and regard the accompanying pains as an enrichment.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
In normal life one is often not at all aware that we always receive infinitely more than we give, and that gratitude is what enriches life. One easily overestimates the importance of one's own acts and deeds, compared with what we become only through other people.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
If you want to live a top shelf life then you need to stand on the books you have read. Never stop learning, never stop growing.
— Jim Rohn
5 minutes of learning today is better than no minutes of learning today.
— Robin Sharma