Quotes about Realization

you don't fully appreciate what you've got until something threatens to take it away.

Your Promised Land is the place where God's personalized promises over your life become a living reality rather than a theological theory.

We want each of you to demonstrate the same diligence for the final realization of your hope. Hebrews 6:11

Individuals who are realized in their own lives almost never criticize others. If they speak at all, it is to offer encouragement. Watch yourself. Of all the manifestations of Resistance, most only harm ourselves. Criticism and cruelty harm others as well.

All genuine epiphanies seem to follow this model: their defining quality is the relinquishment of delusion.

On realising that he is not a born warrior, as the rest of his troop are): A cherished self-conception must be given up, and one feels diminished by it. This is mistaken, however. A person discovers that he has been made stronger by the jettisoning of this sham and disadvantageous bag-gage. In fact, he has become more "himself," by aligning his self-concept more closely with fact.

The mourning of inadequacy is a weeping that catches the attention of God . . .The happiest day of my life was when I realized that my own ability, my own goodness, my own morality was insufficient in the sight of God; and I publicly and openly acknowledged my need of Christ.

I get many letters every day from people who got married because they wanted their own selfish needs satisfied, and have only later come to realize that this does not work.

I've never seen such a hunger in people for spiritual things... People realize the past is gone, the future is uncertain, and the present seems to be hopeless. As a result, many [in Moscow] were open to God.

Bob Marley isn't my name. I don't even know my name yet.

If the Holy Spirit ever touches people in such a way that they realize they are sons or daughters instantly, we ought to celebrate it as a mighty miracle—because sometimes it takes fourteen years.

I worked for Xerox for 4 years and after that I knew I was never going to be a corporate person. It wasn't my environment.