In Our Lives Quotes

#1. When we start blaming God and Satan for what's gone wrong in our lives, we forget how powerful the reflection of humanity is.

Angel M.B. Chadwick

#2. Who would have thought at this time in our lives that we'd still have something like this. That it turns out we're not finished with changes and excitements. And not all dried up in body and spirit.

Kent Haruf

#3. I don't think anybody would argue now that the Internet isn't becoming a major factor in our lives. However, it's very new to us. Newsreaders still feel it is worth a special and rather worrying mention if, for instance, a crime was planned by people 'over the Internet.'

Douglas Adams

#4. Sometimes, challenges and struggles are exactly what we need in our lives ... May you welcome every effort, every struggle, and every challenge ... May you open your wings and fly!

Miranda Kerr

#5. Education is one of the most beautiful and liberating things we can pursue in our lives, but too often it is approached as a restrictive, punitive, linear, and moralistic act.

Jonathan Mooney

#6. What are we doing to each other? Because I know that I am doing to him exactly what he is doing to me. We are sometimes so happy, and never in our lives have we known more unhappiness.

Graham Greene

#7. Me: It's late.
Finch: That depends on who you ask. See, I don't necessarily think it's late. I think early. Early in our lives. Early in the night. Early in the new year. If you're counting, you'll notice the earlys outnumber the lates.

Jennifer Niven

#8. But songbirds are trash," the chicken said, and the guinea hen laughed, saying, "Well, then, I guess we could all use a little more trash in our lives.

David Sedaris

#9. Many of the things most cherished in our lives are those realized only through great difficulty or in the face of adversity, and among those are, so often, friendshio, live, faith, and hope.

Loren R. Graham

#10. I have a strong spiritual commitment, and I try to express that in my work. Salvation cannot be worked out in human terms. The point of my writing is to touch upon the systematics of prayer and on how we arrive at a method of achieving spiritual coherence in our lives.

Richard Grossman

#11. We are often unaware of the gradual decline and the erosion in our lives but not unaware of the gnawing feeling it brings.

Eric Samuel Timm

#12. More and more I'm more interested in the power of non-knowledge in our lives. We live so much in what we know, but really all our knowledge is at best a tiny island in a sea of ignorance.

Bigfoot

#13. We often say God is never late, but generally He isn't early either. Why? Because He uses times of waiting to stretch our faith in Him and to bring about change and growth in our lives.

Joyce Meyer

#14. Failures can be God's little whispers (or) a full earthquake in our lives because we didn't listen to the whispers

Oprah Winfrey

#15. Nothing in our lives takes God by surprise.

Billy Graham

#16. The struggle comes when we sense a gap between the clock and the compass - when what we do doesn't contribute to what is most important in our lives.

Stephen Covey

#17. Most interesting things in our lives happens in our absence

Salman Rushdie

#18. Too often we presume that the unexpected strangers in our lives bode ill,or we are skeptical of their designs.We think we know more.

And while I am well aware that there is indeed all manner of malevolence in the ether,there is benevolence there,too

Chris Bohjalian

#19. For all the tribulations in our lives, for all the troubles that remain in the world, the decline of violence is an accomplishment that we can savor - and an impetus to cherish the forces of civilization and enlightenment that made it possible.

Steven Pinker

#20. In our lives, on average, we will be asleep for a total of 8,477 days. If we're lucky, some of that time will be sleeping next to someone we love.

Ze Frank

#21. God sometimes allows us to feel anger so we'll recognize when we're being mistreated. But even when we experience true injustices in our lives, we must not vent our anger in an improper way.

Joyce Meyer

#22. We're not called to live by human reason. All that matters is obedience to God's Word and his leading in our lives. if God says go,we'll go. If he says stay, we'll stay. When we are in his will, we are in the safest place in the world.

Brother Yun

#23. As our faith grows and we come to know more about the attributes of God and his role in our lives and our obedience, we learn to see our weakness in light of these words, "For is it God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure" (Phil. 2:13).

Hayley DiMarco

#24. Every moment in our lives is a miracle we should enjoy instead of ignoring.

Yoko Ono

#25. The majority of dysfunctions that arise and entrench themselves in our lives are caused because of preconditioned expectations and assumptions.

Ly De Angeles

#26. We stand not as victims, but rather to bear witness to the gender injustices present in our lives and in our world as a whole.

William Keepin

#27. They did not know what we can now sense as we contemplate the course of history: that change begins in the soul before it shows in our lives ...

Franz Kafka

#28. Because the question for me was always whether that shape we see in our lives was there from the beginning or whether these random events are only called a pattern after the fact. Because otherwise we are nothing.

Cormac McCarthy

#29. Through transcendence of duality, we foster greater unity in our lives, which brings about inner peace and the sprouting of unconditional LOVE.

Alaric Hutchinson

#30. If we choose to see things positively and trust in God, he will fulfill his purpose in our lives.

Betsy Landin

#31. He knows the day, the hour, the minute that something in particular needs to happen in our lives. He may not be early, but He's never late.

Cheryl McKay

#32. My current mantra is that sometimes we need teachers in our lives. I never had that in my life, parents and stuff like that; I tried to stay on the outside of them or anybody that had that kind of influence.

Taylor Dayne

#33. The only battle to win is the battle within, that place where we realize that we deserve to have and create all that we want in our lives.

Ali Vincent

#34. It is possible to hold a treasure in your hand but be ignorant of it and go for the wrapping instead. This proximity to truth and distance from its worth is repeated innumerable times in our lives.

Ravi Zacharias

#35. God not only wants us to rely on Him for our daily portion but He also demands we keep first place in our lives reserved for Him. It's easy to get so consumed with our promised land that we forget the promise Maker.

Lysa TerKeurst

#36. The doors that open and close in our lives are not nearly as important as the person we are when we open them.

John Bruna

#37. We must look to God for His grace and His power to perfect godly qualities in our lives.

Elizabeth George

#38. At the threshold of every transition in our lives the devil send a spirit of fear. Therefore be strong and very courageous!

Christine Caine

#39. We are all dangling in mid-process between what already happened (which is just a memory) and what might happen (which is just an idea). Now is the only time anything happens. When we are awake in our lives, we know what's happening. When we're asleep, we don't see what's right in front of us.

Sylvia Boorstein

#40. There is a powerful shifting that takes place as we abandon the right to understand and yield to God's working in our lives.

Jo Ann Fore

#41. The frustrating thing is that those who are attacking religion claim they are doing it in the name of tolerance, freedom and openmindedness. Question: Isn't the real truth that they are intolerant of religion? They refuse to tolerate its importance in our lives.

Ronald Reagan

#42. Almost every important choice in our lives is really just an expression of hope.

John Twelve Hawks

#43. God's presence in our lives fills us with His acceptance and love.

Lysa TerKeurst

#44. There are many urgent things in our lives each day, but the most important things are hardly ever urgent. That's why we need to identify them, give them priority, and place them at the center of our lives.

Power Of Moms

#45. When things don't turn out the way we want, about the only thing we can do is know God is still there piecing together all the scraps of the events in our lives the way He has planned. He sees the big picture even when we don't.

Jody Hedlund

#46. When we learn to attribute meaning to the events in our lives, we connect with our Higher Purpose, Higher Wisdom, or Source; we become Master of the Self. A gradual process, this is often tied to loss and to love.

Susan Barbara Apollon

#47. Vivian has come back to the idea that the people who matter in our lives stay with us, haunting our most ordinary moments. They're with us in the grocery store, as we turn a corner, chat with a friend. They rise up through the pavement; we absorb them through our soles. Vivian

Christina Baker Kline

#48. I can tell you from experience that God's help and presence in our lives is vital. He is the Author of all true success and everything that is good-without Him, we can do nothing of true value.

Joyce Meyer

#49. My grandma always said that we need music in our lives so we'll know how heaven sounds when the angels sing." Maggie

Helaine Mario

#50. You need music, I don't know why. It's probably one of those Joe Campbell questions, why we need ritual. We need magic, and bliss, and power, myth, and celebration and religion in our lives, and music is a good way to encapsulate a lot of it.

Jerry Garcia

#51. Mitch and I have known each other for such a long time, and we're both so pleased to be given this opportunity at this point in our lives to play characters that we've never really had a chance to play before. It's a great gift. Plus we're wise enough to appreciate it.

Susan Sullivan

#52. It is too easy in this country for blessings to become rights, for stuff and money to become what calls the shots in our lives. And before we know it, God's gifts have replaced God himself.

Jennie Allen

#53. In the case of my husband, we found that facing a life-threatening illness prodded us to make a dramatic change in our lives.

Gail Sheehy

#54. And what if Christ's call in our lives is not to comfort in our culture? What if Christ in us actually compels us to counter our culture?

David Platt

#55. Anxiety is a sin also because it is a lack of acceptance of God's providence in our lives.

Jerry Bridges

#56. Almost all of us have an elevator or two in our lives somewhere. We wait for them, we ride on them. We're annoyed by the wait but pleased with the lift.

Andy Rooney

#57. We should not take the blessings of God for granted. We should always be careful to give God praise and thanksgiving for the work that he does in our lives.

Chuck Smith

#58. We do not go to work only to earn an income, but to find meaning in our lives. What we do is a large part of what we are

Alan Ryan

#59. If we trust ourselves, we would succeed in our lives

Saaif Alam

#60. Books have the power to be the light we are seeking at crucial moments in our lives. Reading helps us realize we are not alone, that we can change our circumstances and even achieve the impossible.

Gioconda Belli

#61. Dear girl with the red scarf,
People will come and go in our lives. Most of them we won't give a second thought to as soon as the door closes behind them. But I had always imagined that you would leave the deepest, everlasting mark.
-Mr. Universe.

Maria La Serra

#62. At all crucial moments in our lives we want to speak without knowing what to say.

Joyce Carol Oates

#63. We shouldn't want things and we should be satisfied with no thing. Furthermore, we don't deserve whatever we would like to have in our lives because we think we have been bad, we feel insufficient, or somebody else has convinced us that we're not worthy.

Wayne Dyer

#64. Every moment in our lives brings the opportunity to love and appreciate this beautiful magical life.

Debasish Mridha

#65. What brings a real and lasting joy is our relationships with God, and our love for His other children He has put in our lives. It's people; friends and family that fulfil us. All else, fame, popularity, beauty, is so fleeting.

Lindsey Stirling

#66. Love is the miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives. I am not talking about vanity or arrogance ... for that is not love. It is only fear. I am talking about having a great respect for ourselves and a gratitude for the miracle of our body and our mind.

Louise Hay

#67. We invite compassion into our lives when we act compassionately toward ourselves and others, and we feel connected in our lives when we reach out and connect.

Brene Brown

#68. For many of us, sport has provided the continuity in our lives, the alternative family to the one we left behind. It gives us something to talk about, to preen about, to care about.

John Thorn

#69. This is a massive world, I think, and in each centimeter of it, a different drama unfolds every second of the day. But we live on as if the next moment in our lives will be no different than the last. How foolish we all are.

Mahbod Seraji

#70. For all of its glamour and frivolity, fashion happens to be a relevant and powerful force in our lives. At every level of society, people care greatly about the way they look, which affects both their self-esteem and the way other people interact with them.

Teri Agins

#71. From year to year, environmental changes are incremental and often barely register in our lives, but from evolutionary or geological perspectives, what is happening is explosive change.

David Suzuki

#72. Animals are the bridge between us and the beauty of all that is natural. They show us what's missing in our lives, and how to love ourselves more completely and unconditionally. They connect us back to who we are, and to the purpose of why we're here.

Trisha McCagh

#73. And why do we worship hindsight (as in the news media's constant rehash of the day, the week, the year) and yet distrust foresight, which actually might make a difference in our lives?

Gavin De Becker

#74. We've all, at some point in our lives, been in a position where we have felt powerless.

Maggie Q

#75. We're sharing things in our lives everyday that we wouldn't have picked up the phone to talk about ten years ago.

Gary Vaynerchuk

#76. Humans abhor a vacuum. The immediate filling of a vacuum is one of the basic functions of speech. Meaningless conversations are no less important in our lives than meaningful ones.

Lidiya Ginzburg

#77. We always want to see people strive and see the human spirit triumph against adversity. That's what it's all about because that's what we're doing. We're trying to triumph in our lives.

William H. Macy

#78. When we touch the place in our lives where sexuality and spirituality come together, we touch our wholeness and the fullness of our power, and at the same time our connection with a power larger than ourselves.

Judith Plaskow

#79. Do you realize that the only time in our lives when we like to get old is when we're kids? If you're less than 10 years old, you're so excited about aging that you think in fractions.

George Carlin

#80. I don't think many people have a very good understanding of leisure and the importance it plays in our lives.

Jack Nicholson

#81. We need a few trusted naysayers in our lives, critics who are willing to puncture our protective bubble of self-justifications and yank us back to reality if we veer too far off. This is especially important for people in positions of power.

Carol Tavris

#82. The problem is not finding the needs of people in our lives; the problem is caring enough to act in a manner that is far different than perhaps we have acted previously.

Ted Rivera

#83. Most drama in our lives is really rather squalid.

Tom Baker

#84. If there's one thing the AT teaches, it is low-level ecstasy - something we could all do with more of in our lives.

Bill Bryson

#85. God never closes one door in our lives without opening a new one. Many times it's a much better road for us behind that new door, if we just trust in his love for us and take the new path.

Heather McBride

#86. When it's clear that we have a commitment to God that comes before anything else in our lives, most people will respect us even if they don't share our faith.

Craig Groeschel

#87. As parents, grandparents, uncles and aunts we need to start getting out into nature with the young people in our lives. Families play a key role in getting kids outside.

David Suzuki

#88. The way I look at it is this, as Republicans, we look for less government interference in our lives.

Craig Benson

#89. We hold things. We don't think much about it, but there are hungry people all around us, and God is looking to take the seemingly insignificant little pieces tucked away in our lives to multiply them and feed his people.

Jennie Allen

#90. Some things in our lives, we think about, we hope for, we dream of, we half believe. But some we just know. And what I know, Laura, is that if you practise and learn to play this instrument, the day will come when angels stop and listen to you.

Kevin Crossley-Holland

#91. I think it's because we're looking for the meaning. Where is the meaning? We have mindless jobs, we take frantic vacations, deficit finance trips to the mall to buy more things that we think are going to fill these holes in our lives. Is it any wonder that we've lost our sense of direction?

Matthew McConaughey

#92. God's constant wealth is accessible to us, if we cultivate His holiness in our lives

Sunday Adelaja

#93. God never wastes an experience or trial in our lives. Good or bad, easy or painful, he is able to use everything in our lives to grow us and make us more like him.

Amy Wallace

#94. The law of the fast benefits both those who fast and those who stand in need ... In addition to providing the means for taking care of the poor among us, fasting is a principle of power which helps us to individually achieve righteous purposes in our lives.

Victor L. Brown

#95. The end point of leadership is not just the position of power we reach, but the continual change and deepening we experience that makes a difference in our lives, our work, our world. Our leadership journeys are only at midpoint when we have achieved a position of power.

Janet Hagberg

#96. In our lives, when we do not create something out of total honesty, it cannot last long.

Henry Chang

#97. Joy is God's presence in our lives.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#98. To me, what I'm interested in, in the end, is the meaning of food in our lives.

Jose Andres

#99. The rejection that we all take and the sadness and the aggravation and the loss of jobs and all of the things that we live through in our lives, without a sense of humor, I don't know how people make it.

Marlo Thomas

#100. Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Louise L. Hay