Top 24 Bernadette Roberts Quotes
#1. "I count a lot of things that there's no need to count," Cameron said. "Just because that's the way I am. But I count all the things that need to be counted."
Richard Brautigan
#2. I went on to discover that in its deepest sense, the will is not primarily the faculty of desire for anything known, but rather, the desire for something unknown, animate desire for something that lies beyond ourselves, a longing for something we know is missing in us ...
Bernadette Roberts
#3. My list of acceptable and unacceptable behaviors became a list of exciting possibilities.
C.D. Reiss
#4. But the mornings were most impressive. They were like the first dawn of creation; as though the world had been washed in dew and was still dripping wet and hushed with an air of expectancy
Ray Nestor
#5. The truest communication with God is absolute, total silence; there is not a single word in existence that can convey this communication.
Bernadette Roberts
#6. Leadership is leading the way, guiding the way, living the way ...
Jayce O'Neal
#7. Only God is love, and for this love to be fully realized self must step aside. And not only do we not need a self to love God, but for the same reason we do not need a mind to know him, for that in us which knows God, is God.
Bernadette Roberts
#8. Spiritual life is like a moving sidewalk. Whether you go with it or spend your whole life running against it, you're still going to be taken along.
Bernadette Roberts
#9. A lot of people thought I'd died, because of your coverage, they know I'm still around.
Brenda Lee
#10. Once beyond the self, however, holiness is no longer possible, because now, there is nothing left to give and no-one left to do the giving.
Bernadette Roberts
#11. She made up prayers and said them,
Worshipping unknown gods with unknown singing,
Her customary magic, which would cover
The white moon's face and darken the sun with cloud.
Ovid
#13. When one is perfectly still-mind and body, silent and alone-there is no personality to speak of, thus personality is one's unique way of expression, it is what others see and know of us, nothing more or deeper than that.
Bernadette Roberts
#14. I have lived long enough to see real, significant changes made for the good...and I have been fortunate enough to have participated in some of them...One person can make a difference!
(Father Ted Hesburgh, C.S.C., quoted in our book, God's Icebreaker by Jill A. Boughton and Julie Walters)
Jill A. Boughton
#16. When there is no longer a cyclone, there is no longer an eye. So the storms, crises and sufferings of life are a way of finding the eye.
Bernadette Roberts
#17. rights, all true men engage. From women this ancient faith commands
Ambrose Bierce
#19. People feel deep anxiety finding out that someone they thought was stupid is actually more intelligent than they are.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#20. This search for perfection - which is a search for divinity - is nothing more than the failure to accept our existence the way it is.
Bernadette Roberts
#21. I'd rather be completely alone than with a bunch of people aren't real.
Sarah Ockler
#22. In some ways, all our experiences of God are beyond belief, because all conceptual beliefs pale when compared to the experiential reality.
Bernadette Roberts
#23. To be forgiven is not enough; we must put an end to the very need to be forgiven.
Bernadette Roberts
#24. In 35 years of being in the media, I've had all this mud flung at me many, many times. It's not the first time. It's nothing unusual. I've been through it all before and the best way to deal with it is not to read them.
Delia Smith
